67 



Aliphatic Acids and Glycolipides 



Miyoshi Ikawa, J. B. Koepfli, S. G. Mudd and Carl Niemann, 

 ]. Am. Chem. Soc. 75 1035 (1953). 



105 Mineoluteic Acid, CnjH^c.O;, colorless needles, m.p. 171°, [a]-,4Gi^'' 

 + 108.1° (c 1.07 in acetone) 



-c=o 



CH;,(CH,)9— CH 



HOOC— C— OH 

 CH 



COOH 



Penicillium minioluteum Dierckx 

 Spiculisporic acid is produced in the same culture. 



John H. Birkinshaw and Harold Raistrick, Biochem. J. 28 

 828 (1934). 



106 Palmitoleic Acid (Physetolic Acid, 9-Hexadecenoic Acid), 



CigHsoO^' colorless crystals, m.p. 30-33°. 



CH3(CHo)5CH=CH(CH.)7COOH 



Yeast, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Streptococcus 

 spp., Penicillium lilacinum occurs widely. 



E. Chargaff, Z. phijsiol. Chem. 218 223 (1933). 



Klaus Hofmann and Fred Tausig, /. Biol. Chem. 213 415 

 (1955). 



J. Singh, Sudha Shah and T. K. Walker, Biochem. J. 62 222 

 (1956). 



107 Pyolipic Acid, CigHaoOy, colorless, viscous oil. 



-CH— CH.— COOH 



HCOH 

 HCOH 

 HOCH 

 CH 



(CH,)6 

 CHs 



CHs 



Pseudomonas pyocyanea 

 The yield was 1-2 g. per liter. 



Sune Bergstrom, Hugo Theorell and Hans Davide, Arch. 

 Biochem. 10 165 (1946). 



