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Last updated on November 7, 2024.
Hans Fischer was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin."
In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.
The blood pigment haemoglobin is a compound which can be split by diverse methods into its constituents, pigment and protein.
If we introduce iron complexly into ooporphyrin, we obtain haemin.
Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.