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Magnesium bacteriopheophytinate --> bacteriochlorophyll

(Science: microbiology plant biology) varieties of chlorophyll (bacteriochlorophylls a, b, c, d, e and g) found in photosynthetic bacteria and differing from plant chlorophyll in the substituents around the tetrapyrrole nucleus of the molecule and in the absorption spectra.