Tricosylic acid
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Tricosylic acid
OR:
Tricosylic acid on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Tricosylic acid, or tricosanoic acid, is a 23-
carbon Carbon () is a chemical element with the symbol C and atomic number 6. It is nonmetallic and tetravalent—its atom making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds. It belongs to group 14 of the periodic table. Carbon ma ...
long-chain saturated fatty acid with the
chemical formula In chemistry, a chemical formula is a way of presenting information about the chemical proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound or molecule, using chemical element symbols, numbers, and sometimes also other symbols, ...
CH3(CH2)21COOH.


Natural occurrence

Tricosylic acid occurs naturally in the leaves of ''
Cecropia adenopus ''Cecropia'' is a Neotropical genus consisting of 61 recognized species with a highly distinctive lineage of dioecious trees. The genus consists of pioneer trees in the more or less humid parts of the Neotropics, with the majority of the speci ...
'' and in
fennel Fennel (''Foeniculum vulgare'') is a flowering plant species in the carrot family. It is a hardy, perennial herb with yellow flowers and feathery leaves. It is indigenous to the shores of the Mediterranean but has become widely naturalized ...
. It also occurs in small quantities in the lipids of various other plants.


See also

*
List of saturated fatty acids See also * List of unsaturated fatty acids *Carboxylic acid **List of carboxylic acids *Dicarboxylic acid {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Saturated Fatty Acids Saturated Fatty Acids A saturated fat is a type of fat in which the fatty acid chains ...
*
Very long chain fatty acids A very-long-chain fatty acid (VLCFA) is a fatty acid with 22 or more carbons. Their biosynthesis occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum. VLCFA's can represent up to a few percent of the total fatty acid content of a cell. Unlike most fatty acids, VL ...
*
List of carboxylic acids Carboxylic acids are organic acids characterized by a carboxyl (-COOH) functional group. The naming of these compounds is governed by IUPAC nomenclature, which ensures systematic and consistent naming of chemicals. Numerous organic compounds have o ...


References

Fatty acids Alkanoic acids {{organic-compound-stub