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标题：Quantitative conversion of diether or tetraether phospholipids to glycerophosphoesters by dealkylation with boron trichloride: a tool for structural analysis of archaebacterial lipids.
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作者：M Nishihara ; Y Koga
期刊名称：JLR Papers In Press
印刷版ISSN：0022-2275
电子版ISSN：1539-7262
出版年度：1988
卷号：29
期号：3
页码：384-388
语种：English
出版社：American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
摘要：A method for preparing glycerophosphoesters from ether phospholipids by dealkylation with boron trichloride (BCl3) is described. Treatment of ether phospholipids in chloroform with BCl3 for 30 min at room temperature yielded almost quantitatively the corresponding glycerophosphoesters retaining the intact polar head group of the ether phospholipids. Thus, glycerophosphocholine, glycerophosphoinositol, glycerophosphoglycerol, glycerophosphoserine, glycerophosphate, and glycerophosphoethanolamine were prepared from the diether analogs of phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylserine, and phosphatidic acid, and the tetraether analog of phosphatidylethanolamine, respectively. BCl3 also cleaved diacyl, alkyl-acyl, and alk-1-enyl-acyl forms of phospholipids to yield corresponding glycerophosphoesters. The glycerophosphoesters were separated more rapidly by cellulose thin-layer chromatography with the same solvent system as in paper chromatography. This method is of great use for structure determination of glycerophosphoester backbones of ether phospholipids, analogous to the mild alkaline methanolysis of diacyl form of phospholipids, as well as for the analysis of alkyl chains. It is, however, not applicable to glycolipids because of cleavage of glycosidic bonds by BCl3.