β-Leprosol: the identification of a trialkylresorcinol from bacterial lipids

Journal of the Chemical Society C: Organic Pub Date: DOI: 10.1039/J39690000061

Abstract

The surviving sample of β-leprosol, obtained in 1936 from lipids of Mycobacferium leprae, is identified as a mixture of the monomethyl ethers of 5-n-heptadecyl- and 5-n-pentadecyl-4,6-dimethylresorcinol.

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