Alcohol compounds in Azolla imbricata and potential source implication for marine sediments

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• 作者：ShengYi Mao ; XiaoWei Zhu ; NengYou Wu ; GuoDong Jia…
• 关键词：A. imbricata ; Long ; chain alkyl diols ; Long ; chain alkyl triols ; Hydroxy acids ; SCS sediment
• 刊名：Science China Earth Sciences
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：60
• 期：2
• 页码：348-359
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• 刊物主题：Earth Sciences, general;
• 出版者：Science China Press
• ISSN：1869-1897
• 卷排序：60

文摘

This study investigated the composition of long-chain alkyl diols, triols, sec-alcohols, hydroxyl acids, and other hydroxylated compounds in Azolla imbricata and compared the organic alcohol components of Azolla filiculoides, Azolla microphylla, and South China Sea (SCS) sediments in order to investigate the possible indication of Azolla being the biological source of diols and triols in SCS sediment. Large amounts of diols, monohydroxy acids, and sec-alcohols with internal hydroxy groups at ω20 were detected in the three types of Azolla. Among these, 1,ω20-diol and ω20-hydroxy acid exhibited strong even-odd predominance distribution, whereas ω20-sec-alcohol exhibited strong odd-even predominance distribution. In addition, small amounts of diols, triols, and dihydroxy acids with internal hydroxy groups at 9, 10 or ω9, ω10 were detected, among which the chain length of C₂₉ was predominate. Compounds having similar structures as those in Azolla reflected a similar biosynthetic pathway: ω20-hydroxy acid exhibiting even-odd predominance distribution is decarboxylated to ω20-sec-alcohol exhibiting odd-even predominance distribution and converted to 1, ω20-diol with even-odd predominance distribution by acyl reduction; ω9, ω10-hydroxy acid is converted to 1,20,21(1, ω9, ω10)-triol by acyl reduction, and then converted to 9,10-diol by hydrogenation and dehydration. The alcohol components in A. imbricata were clearly not the biological source of 1,13/1,14/1,15-C_{28, 30, 32} diols and 1,3,4-C_27-29 triols in the SCS sediment. Certain marine diatoms might be the source of 1,14-C_{28, 30} diol in inshore sediment, but the biological source of diols and triols in the SCS sediment requires further investigation.