Ep. Mazzola et al., C-13 NUCLEAR-MAGNETIC-RESONANCE SPECTRAL CONFIRMATION OF DELTA-6-TRANS-18 1 AND DELTA-7-TRANS-18/1 FATTY-ACID METHYL-ESTER POSITIONAL ISOMERS/, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, 74(10), 1997, pp. 1335-1337
Trans octadecenoic acid methyl ester isomers were obtained from a part
ially hydrognated soybean oil and isolated by silver-ion high-performa
nce liquid chromatography. Recently, the double-bond positions for nin
e individual trans octadecenoic acid positional isomers (Delta 8 throu
gh Delta 16) were confirmed by gas chromatography-electron ionization
mass spectrometry after derivatization to 2-alkenyl-4,4-dimethyloxazol
ine. In this communication, the presence of two additional trans-18:1
fatty acid methyl ester positional isomers (Delta 6 and Delta 7) in th
e same mixture is confirmed by C-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectro
scopy. The identity of the Delta 5-trans-18:1 far/acid methyl ester po
sitional isomer is inferred.