Posted by Larry Hoover on July 4, 2004, at 10:01:41
In reply to Re: Pyroluria: Larry H., chemist, anyone...any help? » Simus, posted by Larry Hoover on July 3, 2004, at 11:38:19
I said:
> CLA is conjugated linolenic acid. It is produced by microbial changes in the bond positions of linolenic acid during digestion, particularly in ruminant animals (e.g. cows).CLA is conjugated linoleic acid. Linoleic is not the same as linolenic (what I said the first time). Chemists call names like 'linoleic acid' trivial names. In other words, they're what we always called this stuff, but it has no relationship to what the stuff is. I think in a different terminology system, called IUPAC. It makes mistakes nearly impossible. Believe it or not, I prefer the name cis-9,cis-12-octadecadienoic acid over linoleic acid. I make mistakes translating back to trivial language, though, like saying linolenic when I mean linoleic.
Lar
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