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Analysis of Fatty Acid Content and Composition in Microalgae
Published on: October 1, 2013
Chemical composition of the green alga Codium Divaricatum Holmes
Zhizhou He1, Anjiang Zhang, Lisheng Ding
1Ningbo Institute of Material Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, PR China.
Abstract:
A new sterol, 24-R-stigmasta-4,25-diene-3β,6β-diol (1), along with three known compounds (2-3), was isolated from the green alga Codium divaricatum Holmes, a traditional Chinese medicine, which is efficacious against cancer. All structures were determined by spectroscopic methods and comparison with related known compounds. Single-crystal X-ray crystallography allowed us to confirm the structure of 1. To our knowledge, the compound 1 is reported as the first from natural source, and compounds 2, 4 have not been isolated from green algae before.
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