title: New branched-chain fatty acids from the Senegalese gorgonian Leptogorgia piccola (white and yellow morphs).
abstract: Fatty acids from total lipids of the gorgonian Leptogorgia piccola (white and yellow morphs), collected from the same area at two different periods with regard to the average water temperature, were studied. More than fifty fatty acids were identified as methyl esters and N-acyl pyrrolidides by gas chromatography and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Three new, branched-chain unsaturated fatty acids were identified in addition to the unusual 7-methyl-6-hexadecenoic acid, namely 10-methyl-6-hexadecenoic, 7,9-dimethyl-6-hexadecenoic, and 10-methyl-6,9-heptadecadienoic acids. Also 6,9-heptadecadienoic acid was identified. The fatty acid patterns of specimens harvested in colder waters were quite different from those harvested in warmer waters in that the former contained high amounts of methylene-interrupted polyunsaturated acids, including tetracosapolyenoic acids, especially 6,9,12,15,18-24:5 (up to 15.8% of the total acid mixture) and 6,9,12,15,18,21-24:6 (up to 5.3%). Arachidonic acid was, nevertheless, a major component in all the fatty acid mixtures studied (13.6-20.5%). Based on gas chromatography/Fourier transform infrared experiments, the double bonds were assigned the (Z) configuration. Several fatty aldehydes and their dimethyl acetals were also detected, of which the most abundant was octadecanal.
authors.affiliation: Département de Biologie Végétale, Faculté des Sciences, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mirallès
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Barnathan
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Galonnier
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sall
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Samb
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Gaydou
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Kornprobst
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D003063:Cnidaria / Q000737:chemistry*; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D008055:Lipids / Q000737:chemistry; D015394:Molecular Structure; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids; D008055:Lipids