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Determination of cyclopropenoid fatty acids in Sterculia seed oils from senegal
Author(s) -
Miralles J.,
Bassene E.,
Gaydou E. M.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02542627
Subject(s) - chemistry , palmitic acid , linoleic acid , degree of unsaturation , food science , gas chromatography , oleic acid , fatty acid , chromatography , organic chemistry , biochemistry
Seed oils of Sterculia tomentosa and S. tragacantha (Sterculiaceae) were found to contain malvalic (5.8 and 5.1%), sterculic (11.3 and 30.2%) and dihydrosterculic (0.9 and 0.5%) acids. The total amount of these two cyclopropenoid fatty acids was established by 1 H nuclear magnetic resonance and their cooccurrence by gas chromatography. Besides these unusual compounds, the main common fatty acids were palmitic (20 and 24%), oleic (21 and 15%) and linoleic (30 and 16%) acids.