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Separation of fatty Ester‐Mercuric acetate adducts of alumina
Author(s) -
White H. B.,
Quackenbush F. W.
Publication year - 1962
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/bf02672539
Subject(s) - adduct , chemistry , acetic acid , elution , yield (engineering) , chromatography , linolenate , organic chemistry , petroleum ether , fatty acid , ether , extraction (chemistry) , materials science , metallurgy
A Chromatographic procedure is described for the elution separation on alumina for 100‐mg samples of methyl palmitate and fatty estermercuric acetate adducts. Oleate and linoleate were obtainable in pure form; however, the linolenate adduct did not separate completely from the linoleate adduct. For quantitative results the use of alumina of proper activity and basicity is essential. Ether with small amounts of acetic acid is a suitable eluant. Since the original esters can be regenerated easily the ability to isolate individually the oleate and the linoleate adducts in high yield can be useful in radiobiochemical work.