The properties of biologically active compounds, for example drugs and agrochemicals, which contain in their molecular structure one or more functional groups selected from alcohol, ether, phenyl, amino, amido, thiol, carboxylic acid and carboxylic acid ester groups are modified by replacing one or more of these functional groups by a lipophilic group selected from those of the formula: RCOO—, RCONH—, RCOS—, RCH
2
O—, RCH
2
NH—, —COOCH
2
R, —CONHCH
2
R and —SCH
2
R, wherein R is a lipophilic moiety selected from cis-8-heptadecenyl, trans-8-heptadecenyl, cis-10-nonadecenyl and trans-10-nonadecenyl.
含有醇、醚、苯基、
氨基、酰胺、巯基、
羧酸和
羧酸酯官能团中的一个或多个的
生物活性化合物(例如药物和农药),可以通过用下列公式的亲脂性基团替换其中一个或多个官能团来改变其性质:RCOO—、RCONH—、RCOS—、RCH2O—、RCH2NH—、—COOCH2R、—CONHCH2R和—SCH2R,其中R是从顺-8-
十七烯基、反-8-
十七烯基、顺-10-十九烯基和反-10-十九烯基中选择的亲脂性基团。