Ricinoleic acid Selenophene

One of our major areas of development was the synthesis and study of the chromatographic (8-10), spectroscopic (11-14), and spectrometric properties of a large number of heteroaromatic fatty acid derivatives (each containing either a furan, pyrrole, thiophene, selenophene, or tellurophene nucleus). These fatty acid derivatives were obtained by total synthesis or by partial synthesis from polyunsaturated unsaturated fatty acids (12,13,15-18) and unsaturated hydroxylated fatty acids, such as ricinoleic acid (from castor oil) (19-24). In this range of heteroaromatic fatty acid derivatives, only fatty acids containing a furan nucleus are found in nature (lipid extracts of the pike and salmon and from the latex of the rubber plant) (25-29). A typical method for the preparation of a disub-... 

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