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chlorophylls

  • plural
    of chlorophyll.
    chlorophyll
    noun
    the green coloring matter of leaves and plants, essential to the production of carbohydrates by photosynthesis, and occurring in a bluish-black form, C 55 H 72 MgN 4 O 5 chlorophyll a, and a dark-green form, C 55 H 70 MgN 4 O 6 chlorophyll b.

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They found that the helical fibers formed by the second-generation dendron chlorophylls exhibited a highly ordered structure, while the third-generation dendron chlorophylls displayed a more homogeneous, spherical shape.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024

There are a few algae species that produce chlorophylls a or b like land plants, instead of c.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2024

There are five major chlorophylls: a, b, c and d and a related molecule found in prokaryotes called bacteriochlorophyll.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Researchers are also studying the infrared-absorbing chlorophylls made by some types of photosynthetic cyanobacteria2.

From Nature ● Apr. 25, 2017

In all of these compounds, derived from chlorophylls by the action of alkalies, the Mg remains in the molecule, and all the Mg-containing derivatives from the chlorophylls are known as "phyllins."

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher

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