Department of Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Center of Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
Anne Burras Lane, Newport News, VA, 23606, USA.
Photosynth Res. 2024 Apr;160(1):55-60. doi: 10.1007/s11120-024-01081-x. Epub 2024 Mar 15.
The first use of the word 'chlorophyll' (chlorophile or chlorophyle in the French original) appeared in two papers by Pierre-Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, pharmacists in Paris who isolated and studied the green pigment from plants. Here, we provide English translations of their 1818 note and the slightly longer 1817 paper. Historical context is provided including a timeline of key discoveries in chlorophyll chemistry pertaining to photosynthesis.
“叶绿素”（法语原文中的 chlorophile 或 chlorophyle）一词最早出现在巴黎药剂师皮埃尔-约瑟夫·佩尔蒂埃（Pierre-Joseph Pelletier）和约瑟夫·比安梅·卡文图（Joseph Bienaimé Caventou）的两篇论文中，他们从植物中分离并研究了这种绿色色素。在这里，我们提供了他们 1818 年的注释和稍长的 1817 年论文的英文翻译。提供了包括与光合作用有关的叶绿素化学关键发现时间线在内的历史背景。
