Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Triterpene alcohols and sterols of vegetable oils

  • Technical
  • Published:
Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society

Abstract

Triterpene alcohols and sterols were separated by thin-layer chromatography and gas-liquid chromatography from the unsaponifiable fractions of the following 18 vegetable oils: linseed, peanut, olive, rice bran, palm kernel, corn, sesame, oiticica, palm, coconut, rapeseed, grape seed, sunflower, poppy seed, castor, tea seed, cocoa butter and soybean. Two triterpene alcohols, cycloartenol and 24-methylene cycloartanol, were found in all of the oils except soybean oil, which contained only cycloartenol. Triterpene alcohols such as α- and β-amyrin, euphorbol, butyrospermol and cyclolaudenol also were encountered occasionally. Three sterols, β-sitosterol, stigmasterol and campesterol were present in all of the oils. In addition a fourth sterol, not yet idenfified, was found in oils of palm, palm kernel and sunflower in varying amounts. This unknown sterol and brassicasterol were found in rapeseed oil in addition to the three sterols that were common to all of the oils studied.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. Jaeini, G., G. De Zotti, P. Capella and A. Arpino, Inform. Oléicoles Intern.9, 81 (1960).

    Google Scholar 

  2. Capella, P., G. de Zotti, G. Ricca, A. Valentini and G. Jacini, JAOCS37, 564 (1960).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Jacini, G., and P. Capella, “Enzymes of Lipid Metabolism,” Proceedings, Sixth International Conference on the Biochemistry of Lipids, Marseille 1960, ed. by P. Desnuelle, Pergamon Press, London, p. 91.

  4. Capella, P., Nature190, 167 (1961).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Capella, P., E. Fedeli, M. Cirimele, A. Lanzani and G. Jacini, Fette Seifen Anstrichmittel66, 997 (1964).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. In press.

  7. Capella, P., E. Fedeli, M. Cirimele and G. Jacini, Riv. Ital. Sostanze Grasse6, 296 (1963).

    Google Scholar 

  8. Capella, P., E. Fedeli, M. Cirimele and H. Chaveron, Rev. Franc. Corps Gras11, 584 (1964).

    Google Scholar 

  9. In press.

  10. Stahl, E., Pharmazie11, 633 (1956).

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  11. Ohta, G., Chem. Pharm. Bull. (Tokyo)8, 5 (1960).

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  12. AOCS “Official and Tentative Methods,” Cb 3-39.

  13. Recourt, J. M., and R. K. Beerthuis, Fette Seifen Anstrichmittel65, 619 (1963).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Stazione Sperimentale Olii e Grassi, Centro Nazionale per la Lipochimica del C. N. R.-Milano, Milano, Italy

    E. Fedeli, A. Lanzani, P. Capella & G. Jacini

Authors
  1. E. Fedeli
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. A. Lanzani
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. P. Capella
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. G. Jacini
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Experiment Station for Fats and Oils, National Center for Lipochemistry of National Research Council, Milan, Italy.

About this article

Cite this article

Fedeli, E., Lanzani, A., Capella, P. et al. Triterpene alcohols and sterols of vegetable oils. J Am Oil Chem Soc 43, 254–256 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02641098

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02641098

Keywords

Search

Navigation