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What is the difference between porphyrin and protoporphyrin?
what is the difference between porphyrin and protoporphyrin?
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Protoporphyrin IX is an organic compound, specifically a porphyrin, that plays an important role in living organisms as a precursor to other critical compounds like hemoglobin and chlorophyll. ... The Protoporphyrin IX molecule contains the porphine core, a tetrapyrrole macrocycle that shows marked aromatic character.
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Protoporphyrin is an organic compound (it belongs to porphyrin group, that plays an important role in living organisms as a precursor to hemoglobin and chlorophyll. it contains the porphine core, a tetrapyrrole macrocycle that shows marked aromatic character. The key difference between porphyrin and protoporphyrin is that porphyrin is a group of aromatic chemicals which has four modified pyrrole subunits interconnected to each other, whereas protoporphyrin is a derivative of porphyrin which has propionic acid groups.