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The optical rotation of a major component of plant cutin
Author(s) -
Espelie Karl E.,
Kolattukudy P. E.
Publication year - 1978
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/bf02533487
Subject(s) - cutin , component (thermodynamics) , rotation (mathematics) , chemistry , botany , biology , food science , mathematics , physics , thermodynamics , geometry
Abstract The major component of cutin from the fruit of both tomato and papaya, dihydroxypalmitate, is shown to have plain positive rotation and is, therefore, assigned L configuration in analogy to other known hydroxy fatty acids.