:Heptatriacontanoic acid
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| PIN = Heptatriacontanoic acid
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| CASNo = 38232-07-4
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| ChEMBL = 3103071
| PubChem = 5282597
| ChemSpiderID = 4445724
| SMILES = O=C(O)CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
| InChI = 1/C37H74O2/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30-31-32-33-34-35-36-37(38)39/h2-36H2,1H3,(H,38,39)
| InChIKey = DEQQJCLFURALOA-UHFFFAOYAP
| StdInChI = 1S/C37H74O2/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27-28-29-30-31-32-33-34-35-36-37(38)39/h2-36H2,1H3,(H,38,39)
| StdInChIKey = DEQQJCLFURALOA-UHFFFAOYSA-N
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| C=37 | H=74 | O=2
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Heptatriacontanoic acid, or heptatriacontylic acid, is a 37-carbon saturated fatty acid.
Sources
Heptatriacontanoic acid is present in Abelmoschus manihot and Alpinia nigra.{{cite journal |title=Studies on chemical constituents in flower of Abelmoschus manihot |journal=China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica |year=2006 |last1=Lai |first1=X. Y. |last2=Zhao |first2=Y. Y. |last3=Liang |first3=H. |volume=31 |issue=19 |pages=1597–1600 |pmid=17165583 }}{{cite journal |title= The Chemical Constituents of Blackfruit Galangal (alpinia nigra) |journal=Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs |year=2000 |last1=Chunfeng |first1=Qiao |last2=Zhengtao |first2=Wang |last3=Hui |first3=Dong |last4=Luoshan |first4=Xu |last5=Xiaojiang |first5=Hao |volume=31 |issue=6 |pages=404–405 }} Heptatriacontanoic acid was also measured in zooplankton.{{cite web |url=http://www.iisgcp.org/research/reports/brown_finalreport2011.pdf |title=Food Webs in the 21st Century: Exploration of New Enabling Technologies to Understand and Predict Changes in Aquatic Food Webs and Impacts on Ecosystems |last=Brown |first=Paul B. |publisher=Purdue College of Agriculture |accessdate=2014-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140215170944/http://www.iisgcp.org//research/reports/brown_finalreport2011.pdf |archive-date=2014-02-15 |url-status=dead }}
Compounds
The compound 4,21-dimethyl-5,19-di-(trans)-enoyl-heptatriacontanoic acid is the "structure of the major homolog of free mycobacteric acids" of Mycobacterium brumae.{{cite journal |title=Trafficking pathways of mycolic acids: structures, origin, mechanism of formation, and storage form of mycobacteric acids |journal=The Journal of Lipid Research |date=2008-09-04 |last1=Rafidinarivo |first1=Elie |last2=Lanéelle |first2=Marie-Antoinette |last3=Montrozier |first3=Henri |last4=Pedro |first4= Valero-Guillén |last5=Astola |first5=José| last6=Luquin|first6=Marina | last7 = Promé | first7= Jean-Claude | last8 = Daffé | first8 = Mamadou | volume=50 |issue=3 |pages=477–490 |pmid=18772482 |doi=10.1194/jlr.M800384-JLR200 |url=http://www.jlr.org/content/50/3/477.full |format=PDF |accessdate=2014-04-22 | quote = Altogether these results established the structure of the major homolog of free mycobacteric acids of M. brumae as a 4,21-dimethyl-5,19-di-(trans)-enoyl-heptatriacontanoic acid.|doi-access=free }}
Preparation
The expired U.S. patent 5502226 covers a method of ω-hydroxy acid preparation that includes heptatriacontanoic acid.{{cite patent |inventor-last=Cho |inventor-first=Suk H. |inventor2-last=DeFlorio |inventor2-first=Victor |title=Process of preparing ω-hydroxy acids |issue-date=1996-03-26 |country-code=US |patent-number=5502226 }}
See also
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