Showing papers on "Sterculia foetida published in 1955"
TL;DR: The structure of sterculic acid, the major component of the kernel oil of Sterculia foetida, has attracted the attention of various workers, such as Nunn et al. as mentioned in this paper, who concluded from the constants of the oil and the mixed methyl esters and some degradative experiments that it was 12-methyl octadeca-9: 11-dienoic acid.
Abstract: THE structure of sterculic acid, the major component of the kernel oil of Sterculia foetida, has attracted the attention of various workers. Hilditch et al.
1 failed to isolate the acid but concluded from the constants of the oil and the mixed methyl esters and some degradative experiments that it was 12-methyl octadeca-9: 11-dienoic acid. Steger and Van Loon2, working on the mixed fatty acids, deduced that it was probably a hydroxy acid, C18H34O3. However, recently Nunn3 has isolated this acid, C19H34O2, by the method of urea complexes and suggested its structure as ω -(2n-octylcycloprop-1-enyl)-octanoic acid (I).
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