Lipids of the fruit of Feijoa sellowiana

The composition and amounts of liposoluble substances in the flesh and peel of feijoa fruit has been investigated. About 30 groups of lipid substances have been identified. The main groups of lipids in the flesh were triacylglycerols, sterols, cerebrosides, ceramide phosphate inositol oligosides, sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerols, phosphatidic acids, phosphotidylglycerols and phosphatidylcholines. In the peel, hydrocarbons, sterols, esters of fatty acids and lower alcohols, cerebrosides, digalactosyldiacylglycerols, ceramide oligosides, phosphatidylglycerols, and include predominated. The fatty acids of the flesh were found to include 15 representatives (C_12:0–C_28:0), and those of the flesh 11 representatives tives (C_12:0–C_18:3). M. V. Lomonosov Technological Institute of the Food Industry, Odessa. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 464–467, July–August, 1991.     

Lipids of the fruit of Ficus carica

By chromatographic methods, about 30 groups of various lipid compounds belonging to the classes of neutral lipids, glycolipids, and phospholipids have been identified from the fruit of the fig tree. The main groups are triacylglycerols, free and esterified sterols, mono- and digalactosyldiglycerides, ceramide oligosides, cerebrosides, esterified sterol glycosides, and phosphatidylglycerols. In the fatty acid composition, linoleic, linolenic, oleic, and palmitic acids predominated (>90%).A. V. Bogatskii Physicochemical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Odessa. Lomonosov Technological Institute of the Food Industry, Odessa. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 423–427, July–August, 1986.     

Lipids of the fruit of Diospyros kaki

The composition and amounts of the various groups of liposoluble compounds in the rind and flesh of persimmon fruit of the varieties Hachiya and Hyakume have been established by a combination of chromatographic and chemical methods. The identity of the qualitative composition of the lipids of the flesh and rind of the fruit and quantitative differences in the amounts of individual groups have been found. A total of 24 groups of compounds were identified, the main ones of which were monogalactosyldiglycerides, carotenoids, diacylglycerols, ceramide oligosides, digalactosyldiglycerides, phosphatidylglycerols; phosphatidylcholines, and free and glycosylated sterols. In the fatty acid composition of the lipids unsaturated fatty acids — linolenic, oleic, linoleic, and palmitoleic — predominated (>70%).M. V. Lomonosov Odessa Technological Institute of the Food Industry. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 501–505, July–August, 1987.     

Lipids of the fruit of Ficus carica

By chromatographic methods, about 30 groups of various lipid compounds belonging to the classes of neutral lipids, glycolipids, and phospholipids have been identified from the fruit of the fig tree. The main groups are triacylglycerols, free and esterified sterols, mono- and digalactosyldiglycerides, ceramide oligosides, cerebrosides, esterified sterol glycosides, and phosphatidylglycerols. In the fatty acid composition, linoleic, linolenic, oleic, and palmitic acids predominated (>90%).     

Phytoglycolipids of the grape

The qualitative and quantitative compositions of the grape and its component parts — flesh, skin, seeds — have been studied. Ten fractions have been identified, the main ones being cerebrosides and monogalactosyldiglycerides. The compositions of the fatty acids, of the sphingosine bases, of the sterols, and of the carbohydrates of the individual fraction of phytoglycolipids have been determined.Physicochemical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Odessa. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 296–300, May–June, 1984.     

Lipids of the fruit of Diospyros kaki

The composition and amounts of the various groups of liposoluble compounds in the rind and flesh of persimmon fruit of the varieties Hachiya and Hyakume have been established by a combination of chromatographic and chemical methods. The identity of the qualitative composition of the lipids of the flesh and rind of the fruit and quantitative differences in the amounts of individual groups have been found. A total of 24 groups of compounds were identified, the main ones of which were monogalactosyldiglycerides, carotenoids, diacylglycerols, ceramide oligosides, digalactosyldiglycerides, phosphatidylglycerols; phosphatidylcholines, and free and glycosylated sterols. In the fatty acid composition of the lipids unsaturated fatty acids — linolenic, oleic, linoleic, and palmitoleic — predominated (>70%).     

Nonglyceride complex of the seed oil ofOnopordum acanthium

Extraction of the comminuted seeds has yielded an oil from which have been isolated: C₃₃-C₂₅, C₁₈ and C₁₇ paraffinic hydrocarbons, C_18:1, C_18:2, C_18:3, C_17:1, C_17:2 and C_17:3 olefinic hydrocarbons, ethyl esters of C_32:0, C_31:0, C_30:0, C_29:0, and C_28:0 fatty acids, sterols with molecular weights of 414, 412, and 400, and the alcohols -amyrin and lupeol with their natural acetates. Extraction of the uncomminuted seeds has shown that the paraffinic hydrocarbons, ethyl esters, and alcohol acetates pass into the oil from the husks of the seeds. This is the first time that the C_31:0 and C_29:0 fatty acids have been detected as natural compounds, and it is the first time that the ethyl esters of C₃₄, C₃₃, C₃₂, C₃₁, and C₃₀ fatty acids have been isolated from seed oils of higher plants.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 612–615, September–October, 1979.     

Determination of fatty acids in atmospheric samples via GC/MS

Summary Atmospheric precipitation and aerosol samples are characterized by a complex mixture of several organic compounds. A simple method for the simultaneous determination of the main compound classes by GC/MS is presented. In detail, seasonal variations of C₈–C₃₂ fatty acids in precipitation in a semirural area have been studied. Total fatty acids concentrations of 7–53 g/l were detected. Summer rain is characterized by high amounts of fatty acids >C₂₀ and lower amounts of C₁₁–C₂₀ species. Two effects may be responsible: larger emission rates of fatty acids during vegetation periods and an increased influence of vapour phase due to higher temperatures during summer. CPI values showed no general trend; lower CPI values for winter rain could not be observed. This would be expected if anthropogenic sources play an important role. Monounsaturated fatty acids (C_16:1, C_18:1) were more abundant during winter than in summer. High concentrations of polyunsaturated fatty acids (C_18:x) could be detected during summer. High relative concentrations of the potential oxidation products of the unsaturated species, nonanedioic acid and w-oxononanoic acid, are associated with relatively low concentrations of their precursors.     

Oxygenated acids of the reserve lipids of Rumex paulsenianus

The composition of the fatty mono- and dihydroxy acids of the fruit ofRumex paulsenianus Rech. fil. (familyPolygonaceae) has been determined by a combination of IRS, UVS, GLC, and mass-spectrometric methods. (22) Monohydroxy acids of the C₁₄–C₂₀ series, including isomers and isologues, and four dihydroxy acids from C₁₈ to C₂₀, including a new isomeric 9-OH-10, 12–17:2 acid have been detected.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 762–765, November–December, 1991.     

Lipids of the tuberous roots ofMandragora turcomanica

The lipids of the tuberous roots ofMandragora turcomanica Mizger (fam. Solanaceae) have been characterized for the first time. By using CC, TLC, Ag⁺-TLC, UV and IR spectroscopies and mass spectrometry, 20 classes of lipids and lipophilic substances have been characterized. The main components of the acyl-containing lipids that were isolated were found to be triacylglycerols and glycolipids, and among the lipophilic compounds they were alkanols and sterols; in the mixture of fatty acids of the acyl-containing lipids the 18:2, 18:1, and 16:0 acids predominated.Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 615–623, September–October, 1994.     

Lipids of the leaves of Brassica oleracea

The composition of the various groups of liposoluble compounds in the leaves of wild cabbage of early-, middle-, and late-ripening varieties have been identified and their amounts have been determined by chromatographic and chemical methods. About 30 groups of lipid substances have been identified, among which free and esterified forms of sterols, di- and triacylglycerols, hydrocarbons, lipoquinones, mono- and digalactoside glycerides, cerebrosides, phosphatidylethanolamines, phosphatidylglycerols, and phosphatidylcholines predominate. The presence of 13 components has been established among the fatty acids, linolenic acid being present in the greatest amount (50%). The influence of the time of ripening of the cabbage variety (early-, middle-, or late-ripening) on the composition of the lipid complex has been elucidated.M. V. Lomonosov Technological Institute of the Food Industry, Odessa. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 180–185, March–April, 1989.     

Nonglyceride complex of the seed oil ofOnopordum acanthium

Extraction of the comminuted seeds has yielded an oil from which have been isolated: C₃₃-C₂₅, C₁₈ and C₁₇ paraffinic hydrocarbons, C_18:1, C_18:2, C_18:3, C_17:1, C_17:2 and C_17:3 olefinic hydrocarbons, ethyl esters of C_32:0, C_31:0, C_30:0, C_29:0, and C_28:0 fatty acids, sterols with molecular weights of 414, 412, and 400, and the alcohols α-amyrin and lupeol with their natural acetates. Extraction of the uncomminuted seeds has shown that the paraffinic hydrocarbons, ethyl esters, and alcohol acetates pass into the oil from the husks of the seeds. This is the first time that the C_31:0 and C_29:0 fatty acids have been detected as natural compounds, and it is the first time that the ethyl esters of C₃₄, C₃₃, C₃₂, C₃₁, and C₃₀ fatty acids have been isolated from seed oils of higher plants.     

Oxygenated acids of the lipids ofOnopordum acanthium seeds

The structures of the oxygenated fatty acids of the lipids ofOnopordum acanthium L. seeds have been studied by the methods of chemical, chromatographic, and spectral analyses. Triepoxy acids of the C₁₈ series and 24 monohydroxy acids with chain lengths of C₁₄–C₁₈ have been identified, of which the 8-OH-9Z,12Z-18:2 and the 14-OH-9Z,12Z-18:2 acids have been isolated as natural compounds for the first time.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 515–518, July–August, 1993.     

Nonglyceride lipids of the seed coats ofArtemisia absinthium andOnopordum acanthium

The seed coats ofArtemisia absinthium andOnoporum acanthium have been shown to contain paraffinic hydrocarbons (C₃₁-C₂₅ and C₃₁-C₂₇, respectively), wax esters (C₃₂-C₂₃ and C₅₁-C₃₃), acetyltriterpenols (six types, five types), and acyltriterpenols with a predominance of palmitoyltriterpenols (esters of higher saturated unbranched C_32:0-C_12:0 fatty acids and triterpenols with a molecular weight of 426 belonging to the ursene group).Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 154–157, March–April, 1981.     

Esterification of C1−C8 carboxylic acids to n-butyl esters in aqueous solutions for their gas chromatographic analysis

Summary The esterification of C₁–C₈ fatty acid in aqueous solutions and in the presence of sulfuric or hydrochloric acid and with n-butanol is described. It has been established that the esterification can be used for the quantitative determination of these fatty acids in the concentration ratio range of [H₂O]/[n-BuOH]=0.01–5.3. In the concentration ratio range of 0.01–0.8 the water present does not interfere. In the concentration range of above 0.8 anhydrous sodium sulfate is used for binding the water, in the amount of [Na₂SO₄.anh.]/[H₂O]0.2.     

The composition of the organic acids of CO2 extracts of some spice-aromatic plants

Summary 1. It is desirable to analyze the composition of the organic acids of CO₂ spice extracts after their preliminary separation into individual groups according to their physicochemical properties: steam-volatile, ester-bound obtained after the hydrolysis of esters of nonglyceride nature, and acids forming components of the triglycerides.2. Characteristic for the fraction of steam-volatile free acids and for the ester-bound acids in the CO₂ extracts obtained after the hydrolysis of esters of nonglyceride nature are the C₁–C₇ low-molecular-weight saturated acids of the alipatic series: formic, isovaleric, valeric, caproic, etc. The higher fatty acids present include acids with even and odd numbers of carbon atoms from C₈ to C₁₈ and also acids with saturated and unsaturated bonds.3. The compositions of the lower acids in the extracts of all the samples studied are qualitatively very similar. Their quantitative compositions differ fundamentally. At the same time, differences both in the qualitative and in the quantitative compositions of the glyceride acids of the samples investigated are more pronounced. This is due to the circumstance that fruit was subjected to extraction in one case and leaves and rhizomes in another.Krasnodar Scientific-Research Institute of the Food Industry. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 763–767, November–December, 1977.     

Cerebrosides of the Far Eastern sponge Hymeniacidon assimilis

Cerebrosides have been isolated from chloroform-ethanol extract of the spongeHymeniacidon assimilis. Their structures have been established with the aid of¹H NMR spectroscopy, acid hydrolysis, and ozonolysis as the -galactosides of the C₁₆-, C₁₇-, and C₁₈-erythro-⁴-sphingenines of normal, iso, and anteiso structures acylated in the amino groups with C₂₁-, C₂₂-, and C₂₃--hydroxy acids. The cerebrosides fromH. assimilis differ in structure from the corresponding compounds isolated previously from sponges.Pacific Ocean Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Scientific Center, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok. Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Scientific Center, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Vladivostok. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 5, pp. 634–639, September–October, 1989.     

Effect of Solubilization in Bitemplate Synthesis of a Homologous Series of Organosilica Mesophases and Mesoporous Molecular Sieves

Peculiarities of bitemplate synthesis of a homologous series of organosilica mesophases (precursors of mesoporous molecular sieves of MCM-41 type) were studied, and an influence of a nature of templating substances and a solubilization on a perfection of their spatial structure was found. n-alkyl(C₈–C₁₈)pyridinium halides as solubilizers (micelle-forming surfactants) and monoethanolamides of saturated n-(C₁₀–C₁₆)aliphatic acids as solubilizate were used. Some physicochemical factors promoting a spatial ordering of organosilica mesophases and mesoporous molecular sieves were considered.     

Seed lipids of some species of the genusAlthaea

We have determined the fatty acid composition, Trenoids, phthalates, alcohols, esters, and nitrogen containing compounds in the seeds ofAthaea L. species:A. offcinalis L.,A. armeniaca, Ten., A. taurinensis DC., and A. broussonedifolia. All the species studied contained considerable amounts of palmitic, linoleic, petroselinic, and stearic acids. Terpenoids were represented 115, aldehydes and ketones of the monoterpene series, phthalates by dibutyl phthalate, dihydric alcohols and ethers by compounds with the composition C₁₀H₂₂O₂, and nitrogen-containing substances by 4-morpholinylbutylamine.Zaporozhe State Medical Institute. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 365–368, May–June, 1995. Original article submitted November 22, 1994.     

Lipoid components of a carbon dioxide extract of tea wastes

The lipoid composition of a CO₂ extract from industrial wastes of tea manufacture has been studied for the first time. It contains phospholipids, fatty acid monoglycerides, carotenoids, sterols, tocopherols, free acids, hydrocarbons, and waxes. The carotenoids are represented by -carotene. The fatty acid compositions of the free and bound acid fractions were determined by GLC. It was found that palmitic acid predominated in the free state and stearic acid in the bound state.Scientific-Research Institute of the Food Industry, Krasnodar. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 181–184, March–April, 1985.