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Fungus Pigments, 41. - Naphthoquinone Pigments from the Slime Moulde Trichia floriformis and Metatrichia vesparium (Myxomycetes)
Kopanski, Lothar,Li, Guang-Ren,Besl, Helmut,Steglich, Wolfgang
, p. 1722 - 1729 (2007/10/02)
Trichione (1) is the red main pigment of fruiting bodies from the slime mould Trichia floriformis.In contains a 2,5-dihydroxynaphthoquinone chromophore, substituted in position 3 by an unsaturated side chain carrying a terminal hemimalonate moiety.Homotrichione (7) differs by the presence of two additional CH2 groups in the side chain.It co-occurs with arcyriaflavin B (5), arcyriaflavin C (6) and further pigments in Metatrichia vesparium.