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Halepas, Steven; Hamchand, Randy; Lindeyer, Samuel E. D.; Bru¨ckner, Christian – Journal of Chemical Education, 2017
A laboratory experiment is described that extracts the tetrapyrrolic teal-colored biliverdin IXa, as its dimethyl ester, from commercially available emu eggshells. The extraction of ~10 mg samples of biliverdin is simple and requires two 3 h lab periods: A two-step acid digestion and liquid-liquid extraction, followed by short silica gel flash…
Descriptors: Animals, Science Instruction, Laboratory Experiments, Chemistry