South African pilchard oil. 4. The isolation and structure of a hexadecatetraenoic acid from South African pilchard oil
- 1 August 1954
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 57 (4) , 582-587
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0570582
Abstract
The techniques of lithium soap-acetone segregation, molecular distillation, urea complex fractionation and reversed-phase partition chromatography were applied in successive sub-fractions of the total fatty acids of South African pilchard oil. Application of these techniques has resulted in the isolation of a new acid characterized by physical and chemical means as hexadeca-6:9:12:15-tetraenoic acid.Keywords
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