The constitution of the aliphatic alcohols in human sebum

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Abstract
Twelve aliphatic alcohols of human sebum were isolated and identified. They belong to 3 homologous series as follows: saturated normal alcohols (tetradecan-1-ol, hexadecan-1-ol, octadecan-1-ol, eicosan-1-ol, docosan-1-ol, tetracosan-1-ol), saturated iso alchols (18-methylnonadecan-1-ol, 20-methylheneicosan-1-ol, 22-methyltricosan-1-ol) and un-saturated normal alcohols (eicos-10-en-1-ol, docos-12-en-1-ol, tetracos-14-en-1-ol). The reversed phase partition chromato-graphic technique for resolution of fatty acid mixtures (Howard and Martin, 1950) was extended to include 6 shorter-chain acids having odd and even numbers of carbon atoms.