Sarcoglycosides A – C,New O‐Glycosylglycerol Derivatives from the South China Sea Soft Coral Sarcophyton infundibuliforme

Chemical examination of the soft coral Sarcophyton infundibuliforme collected from the South China Sea resulted in the isolation of the three new O‐glycosylglycerol derivatives sarcoglycosides A–C ( 1 – 3 ), together with two known compounds, chimyl alcohol ( 4 ) and hexadecanol ( 5 ). Their structures were elucidated by combined spectral and chemical methods. All the compounds showed moderate toxicity to brine shrimps Artemia salina.     

Behavior of 10-(perfluorohexyl)-decanol, a partially fluorinated analog of hexadecanol, at the air-water interface

10-(Perfluorohexyl)-decanol is a partially fluorinated analog of hexadecanol, an important detergent alcohol. With a melting point of T=48.82 °C and a melting enthalpy of ΔH=53.96 J/g, the intermolecular interactions of the fluorinated alcohol are weaker compared to hexadecanol (T=52.67 °C, ΔH=244.41 J/g). The behavior of this fluorinated alcohol at the air-water interface was studied on five different subphases, namely, water, NaCl (150 mM), CaCl₂ (2 mM), HCl (pH=2.0), and urea (0.5 M). Similar to other partially fluorinated amphiphiles, the compression isotherms of the fluorinated alcohol on all subphases are more expanded compared to the hydrocarbon alcohol with a limiting area of 32-36 Å² per molecule and a temperature-dependent phase transition at 5.6-8.2 mN/m (37 °C, compression rate of 10 mm/min). The dependence of the compression isotherms of 10-(perfluorohexyl)-decanol on subphase composition and temperature follows the trends reported for tetra- and hexadecanol. In particular, a shift to smaller molecular areas with increasing temperatures was observed on all five subphases. The shift to smaller molecular areas on urea indicates that in the case of 10-(perfluorohexyl)-decanol the effect is largely due to a loss of material from the air-water interface during compression of the monolayers. However, a squeezing-out of water molecules from the hydration sphere of the polar headgroup may still occur but can not be unambiguously proven.     

深黄被孢霉生物转化十六醇合成油脂的研究

不饱和脂肪酸有重要的生理机能 ,寻找富含不饱和脂肪酸的新油源 ,以弥补动植物油源的不足已成为当前的研究热点 .高碳醇转化为高碳酸已有报道[1],但将其转化为不饱和脂肪酸的研究还少见报道 .利用产脂微生物合成不饱和脂肪酸是开发新油源的良好途径[2 ,3].本文用深黄被孢霉生物转化十六醇合成油脂 ,并分析了油脂中脂肪酸的组成 ,对转化条件也进行了初步研究 .1　实验部分将深黄被孢霉 (Ｍｏｒｔｉｅｒｅｌｌａｉｓａｂｅｌｌｉｎａ)于 2 8℃在种子培养液中活化 2 4ｈ ,然后接种于十六醇转化培养基上 ,于 2 8℃摇瓶发酵 96ｈ(摇瓶转速 1 50ｒ…