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Acetylenic acids from mosses
Author(s) -
Anderson W. H.,
Gellerman J. L.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
lipids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.601
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1558-9307
pISSN - 0024-4201
DOI - 10.1007/bf02532437
Subject(s) - moss , chemistry , methylene , organic chemistry , lipidology , fatty acid , botany , biology
Two new acetylenic fatty acids, 9, 12‐octadecadien‐6‐ynoic and 11,14‐eicosadien‐8‐ynoic, were identified from lipids of the moss, Fontinalis antipyretica . They resemble the previously identified 9,12,15‐octadecatrien‐6‐ynoic acid by having a methylene interrupted unsaturated system. The C 20 acetylenic acid shows that the capability of mosses to synthesize polyolefinic acids of this chain length applies, in certain species, also to olefinic‐acetylenic acids.