Abstract
THE ‘end carbon chain’, shown to be the key factor in relating the retention time of unsaturated fatty acids of differing chain-length but the same number of double bonds, was originally defined as the number of carbon atoms beyond the double bond farthest removed from the carboxyl group1.
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ACKMAN, R. Revision of the End Carbon Chain Concept in the Gas-Liquid Chromatography of Methyl Esters of Unsaturated Fatty Acids. Nature 195, 1198 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1951198a0
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