Sedimentary evidence for a diaromatic carotenoid with an unprecedented aromatic substitution pattern

…, JSS Damsté, MP Koopmans, JW de Leeuw

Index: Hartgers, Walter A.; Damste, Jaap S. Sinninghe; Koopmans, Martin P.; Leeuw, Jan W. de Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1993 , # 23 p. 1715 - 1716

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Abstract

The 'aromatic hydrocarbon' fraction of the extractable organic matter from Palaeozoic sediments and related oils from the Western Canada and Williston Basins (northern America, 400-300 x 106 years)l contains three diaryl isopre- noids and a series of diagenetically-derived counterparts thereof.2 The structures of the two less abundant diaryl isoprenoids have recently been identified3 as isorenieratane 1 and renieratane 2 by comparison of mass spectra and relative GC ...