Acid-catalyzed tetermerization of 4-ethyl-5-(hydroxymethyl)-3-raethylpyrrole-2-carboxylic acid(1) is shown to produce a mixture of all four etioporphyrin primary —type-isomers–, rather than solely etioporphvrin-I (2).
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Smith et al. (1979) studied this question.