NOVEL HOPANOID DERIVATIVES RELEASED BY OXIDATION OF MESSEL SHALE KEROGEN

Authors
REISS C BLANC P TRENDEL JM ALBRECHT P
Citation
C. Reiss et al., NOVEL HOPANOID DERIVATIVES RELEASED BY OXIDATION OF MESSEL SHALE KEROGEN, Tetrahedron, 53(16), 1997, pp. 5767-5774
Citations number
37
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Inorganic & Nuclear
Journal title
Tetrahedron → ACNP
ISSN journal
00404020
Volume
53
Issue
16
Year of publication
1997
Pages
5767 - 5774
Database
ISI
SICI code
0040-4020(1997)53:16<5767:NHDRBO>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Oxidation of Messel share kerogen using ruthenium tetroxide yielded se veral series of hopanoid triterpenes which have been identified by syn thesis. These compounds could originate from hopenes or hopanes of bac terial origin linked to the kerogen; their structures indicate that in corporation processes into macromolecular entities of their biological precursors must occur at a rather early stage of diagenesis. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.