Carotenoid chemistry

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Introduction.—This Report covers the literature published up to approximately the end of September, 1981. Few new carotenoid structures have been reported. The main advances in carotenoid chemistry have been in the stereospecific synthesis of carotenoids with chiral end-groups. Current interest in the possible use of retinoids in cancer chemotherapy has prompted the preparation of a considerable number of retinoic acid analogues. There has been no major new development in the use of physical methods but h.p.l.c. becomes more and more the method of choice for carotenoid separation, purification, and assay, and the increasing number of papers on resonance Raman spectroscopy emphasizes the potential value of this technique in the carotenoid field. 

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