A new procedure for the preparation of methyl esters from free fatty acids under mild conditions was investigated. Free fatty acids are dissolved in a mixture of chloroform-methanolic HCl-cupric acetate and kept at room temperature for 30 min for complete esterification. The method is suitable for esterification of long-chain acids, such as 18:0, and for very long chain acids, such as 24:0. Fat...

In the free-electron model (FE) of cyclic polyenes the 7r-electrons are allowed to move freely in a ring. A modification of the FE-model (the MFE-model) is discussed in which the N-fold symmetry due to the N C-atoms of the ring is taken into account by an appropriate potential. The results of the MFE-model are compared with HMO-theory. The sequence of degenerate and non-degenerate levels which ...

Microorganism-derived polyene polyketides have been shown to display a variety of biological activities and have attracted great interest due to their structurally intriguing chemical diversity. Two new polyenes were isolated from a culture broth of Streptomyces sp. KMC-002 obtained from a soil sample in an abandoned mine. The structures of these compounds were determined to be α-pyrone-contain...