Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry on serially coupled capillary columns with different polarity of stationary phases snowed that the soil cyanobacterium Microcoleus vaginatus from the Negev desert produces an unusual mixture of 4 normal and more than 60 branched alkanes, as well as a number of fatty acids, cyclic and unsaturated hydrocarbons, aldehydes, alcohols, and ketones. The dominant compounds were heptadecane (12%), 7-methylheptadecane (7.8%), hexadecanoic acid (6.5%), (Z)-9-hexadecenoic acid (5.6%), 4-ethyl-2,2,6,6-tetramethylheptane (2.8%), (Z)-9-octadecenoic acid (2.8%), and 4-methyl-5-propylnonane (2.7%).
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Dembitsky, V. M., Dor, I., Shkrob, I., & Aki, M. (2001). Branched Alkanes and Other Apolar Compounds Produced by the Cyanobacterium Microcoleus vaginatus from the Negev Desert. Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry, 27(2), 110–119. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011385220331
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