What is the product of the decarboxylation of trytophan?
1 Answer
Dec 7, 2015
The product of decarboxylation of tryptophan is tryptamine.
The structure of tryptophan is
If you decarboxylate tryptophan, you get tryptamine.
In the lab, the decarboxylation takes place readily in a high-boiling solvent like cyclohexanol (b.p. 161 °C) containing cyclohex-2-en-1-one as a catalyst.
In cells, the enzyme tryptophan decarboxylase converts tryptophan to tryptamine.
