Affiliation:
1. The Hormel Institute University of Minnesota Austin Minnesota 55912
Abstract
AbstractTwo new acetylenic fatty acids, 9, 12‐octadecadien‐6‐ynoic and 11,14‐eicosadien‐8‐ynoic, were identified from lipids of the moss,Fontinalis antipyretica. They resemble the previously identified 9,12,15‐octadecatrien‐6‐ynoic acid by having a methylene interrupted unsaturated system. The C20 acetylenic acid shows that the capability of mosses to synthesize polyolefinic acids of this chain length applies, in certain species, also to olefinic‐acetylenic acids.