HYDROXY ACIDS The hydroxyl group(s) may occur at various positions in the carbon chain which can be saturated or monoenoic. Some polyhydroxy fatty […]
FATTY ALCOHOLS Aliphatic alcohols occur naturally in free form (component of the cuticular lipids) but more usually in esterified (wax esters) or […]
MARINE LIPIDS During the past 10 years world production of fish oil was decreasing from about 1.4 to 1.0 million tons (2007-08). Europe […]
HALOGENATED FATTY ACIDS This page is intended as a comprehensive and rapid survey of fatty acids possessing carbonâhalogen covalent bonds, […]
PHENOLIC LIPIDS There are essentially two types of phenolic lipid, those in which the side-chain is isoprenoid, as in a-tocopherol, and […]
Glycosides of fatty acids with ester links These glycolipids are found in bacteria, yeasts and fungi but also in […]
Ethanolamine glycerophospholipids Analogous structures to those described for choline phospholipids exist for the ethanolamine phospholipids. The pattern of fatty acid distribution generally shows […]
POLYENOIC FATTY ACIDS These fatty acids (also called polyunsaturated fatty acids, PUFA) have 2 or more cis double bonds which are the […]
MONOENOIC FATTY ACIDS In his classic studies on fatty acids from pork fat, Chevreul (1823) recognized the nature of oleic acid but it […]
SECONDARY PEROXIDATION PRODUCTS FROM FATTY ACIDS OR MORE COMPLEX LIPIDS The majority of chain-cleavage products formed from monohydroperoxides are molecules belonging mainly to […]