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Purified triacylglycerols (TAG) fromPinus koraiensis andP. pinaster seed oils, which are interesting and commercially available sources of Δ5-olefinic acids (i.e.,cis-5,cis-9,cis-12 18:3 andcis-5,cis-11,cis-14 20:3 acids) were fractionated by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography, and each fraction was examined by capillary gas-liquid chromatography for its fatty acid composition. A structure could be assigned to more than 92% of TAG from both oils. In both instances, ca. 48% of the TAG were shown to contain at least one δ5-olefinic acid. In the great majority of TAG, our data showed that there is only one molecule of δ5-olefinic acid per molecule of TAG. This is compatible with theoretical calculations based on the proportion of total δ5-olefinic in the oils. Thecis-5,cis-9,cis-12 18:3 acid (14.2 and 8.6% of total fatty acids in the seed oils ofP. koraiensis andP. pinaster, respectively) and thecis-5,cis-11,cis-14 20:3 acid (1.1 and 8.1% of total fatty acids in the seed oils ofP. koraiensis andP. pinaster, respectively) are preferentially associated with two molecules of linoleic acid, and to a lesser extent, to one molecule of linoleic acid and one molecule of oleic acid, or two oleic acid molecules. However, several other combinations occur, each in low amounts. The distribution of δ5-olefinic acids in TAG is evidently not random. Combining these results with the known preferential esterification of δ5-olefinic acids to the 1,3-positions of TAG would suggest that most of these acids are present at only one of these positions at a time.
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Gresti, J., Mignerot, C., Bézard, J. et al. Distribution of Δ5-olefinic acids in the triacylglycerols fromPinus koraiensis andPinus pinaster seed oils. J Am Oil Chem Soc 73, 1539–1547 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02523522
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