Taxus baccata seed oil: a new source of cis-5,cis-9-octadecadienoic acid.
Methyl esters prepared from the seed oil of the conifer Taxus baccata L. were found by gas liquid chromatography to contain 12% of a component which, when isolated by preparative thin layer chromatography and characterized by mass spectrometry, ozonolysis and nuclear magnetic resonance, was identified as cis-5,cis-9-octadecadienoic acid.
D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D004952:Esters; D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated / Q000032:analysis*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D009821:Oils / Q000032:analysis*; D012639:Seeds / Q000032:analysis*; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared
D004952:Esters; D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated; D009821:Oils