摘要:
The secondary metabolites of both intact and damaged fruit bodies of the edible mushroom Cantharellus cibarius have been investigated. The fruit bodies originally contain several fatty acids, one of the most abundant being 14,15-dehydrocrepenyic acid which is present both as a free fatty acid and as the triglyceride. 14,15-Dehydrocrepenyic acid is proposed to be the precursor of a new fatty acid which is formed enzymatically in response to injury to the fruit bodies. The new compound, called cibaric acid (1a), was isolated, and the elucidation of its structure by spectroscopic methods is described.