Novel heneicosadienoic and tricosadienoic acid isomers in ovaries of marine archaeogastropods.

To investigate unusual odd-chain fatty acids (FA) from gonads of archaeogastropods, limpets Cellana grata and Cellana toreuma, a subfraction enriched in FA with two double bonds extracted from the gonads was obtained by using argentation thin-layer chromatography. The resulting fraction was analyzed by using capillary gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of its methyl esters, 3-pyridylcarbinol esters and pyrrolidide derivatives. Six novel all-cis diene isomers were identified as 7,18-heneicosadienoic (21:2Δ7,18), 8,14-tricosadienoic (23:2Δ8,14), 9,15-tricosadienoic (23:2Δ9,15), 7,18-tricosadienoic (23:2Δ7,18), 9,18-tricosadienoic (23:2Δ9,18), and 9,20-tricosadienoic (23:2Δ9,20) acids. In the present study, the differences in the proportion of tricosadienoic acid isomers between the ovary lipids of C. grata and C. toreuma were recognized.