Bacterial chemistry - IV. Complete characterization of violacein: an antibiotic and trypanocide pigment from chromobacterium violaceum

ABSTRACT

Chromobacterium violaceum, Brazilian or Chilean strain, produces a pigment 3 [1,2-dihydro-5 (5-hydroxy-JH-indo) 2-oxo-3H-pyrrol-3-ylidene] 1,3-dihydro-2H-indol-2-one (Violacein). Violacein was isolated from acetone extract in both cases and identified by ultraviolet-visible., infrared, nuclear magnetic rosonance spectroscopy and by mass spectrometry. A derivative of violacein, the tetracetyl-violacein was synthetized in order to confirm the violacein structure. The biosynthesis of C=violacein is also reported