Identification and characterization of fully deuterated fatty acids isolated from Scenedesmus obliquus cultured in deuterium oxide.

Autor: Graff, Gustav, Szczepanik, Patricia, Klein, Peter, Chipault, J., Holman, Ralph
Zdroj: Lipids; Sep1970, Vol. 5 Issue 9, p786-792, 7p
Abstrakt: The alga Scenedesmus obliquus cultured in deuterated water, synthesized fully deuterated saturated and unsaturated long chain fatty acids. Their methyl esters were purified and their equivalent chain lengths were determined by gas liquid chromatography (GLC). They were characterized by mass spectroscopy, IR and near-IR spectroscopy, and NMR spectroscopy. Hexadeca-3,6-dienoic acid was identified. The fatty acid compositions of the total lipid and of individual lipid classes were measured. The melting point of methyl perdeuteriohexadecanoate was lower than that of its hydrogen counterpart. Methyl esters of perdeuterio fatty acids had shorter retention times in GLC chromatography on polar and nonpolar phases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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