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Study on sterols from brown algae (Sargassum muticum)

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Abstract

Various Δ5-3β-sterenols, whose carbon numbers range from C19-C23 to C26-C30 and some compounds have many stereomers maximal up to six, have been detected out from the extract of brown algae (Sargassum muticum), which means that steranes with lower carbon numbers are likely different in the origin, and some corresponding sterol stereoisomers may have already existed in their precursor organisms. This provides some experimental evidence for supplementing and amending the traditional interpretation of the sterol stereoisomer transformation during the deposition and diagenesis of organic matter.

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  1. Petroleum Geochemical Key Laboratory of Petroleum Exploration and Development Institute, CNPC, Beijing, 100083, China

    Wang Peirong, Xu Guanjun, Zhang Shuichang & Song Fuqing

  2. Organic Geochemistry Department of Yangtze University, Jingzhou, 434023, China

    Wang Peirong

  3. Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Bian Lizeng

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Wang, P., Xu, G., Bian, L. et al. Study on sterols from brown algae (Sargassum muticum). CHINESE SCI BULL 51, 2520–2528 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-006-2124-y

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