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Structures of flazin and YS, highly fluorescent compounds isolated from japanese soy sauce

✍ Scribed by Shin-ichi Nakatsuka; Bai-nian Feng; Toshio Goto; Kiyoshi Kihara

Book ID: 104218886
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1986
Tongue: French
Weight: 217 KB
Volume: 27
Category: Article
ISSN: 0040-4039
DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(00)84806-6

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✦ Synopsis

In 1936, Higashi 1) first found a highly fluorescent compound in sake(Japanese rice wine) lees and named it flazin. Flazin has also been found in Japanese rice vinegar 2) , soy sauce 3) and miso4)(fermented soy bean paste), but

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