{"id":1808,"date":"2024-03-02T18:44:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T18:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2024-03-02T18:44:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T18:44:30","slug":"substituent-groups-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/02\/substituent-groups-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Substituent groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In addition to the very common fatty acids with straight saturated or unsaturated acyl chains, many fatty acids are chemically modified by substituents on the\u00a0hydrocarbon\u00a0chain. For example, the preening gland of ducks secretes a\u00a0fatty acid\u00a010 carbons long with methyl (CH<sub>3<\/sub>) groups substituted for one of the hydrogens on carbons 2, 4, 6, and 8. Some bacteria produce fatty acids that have a\u00a0methyl group\u00a0on the\u00a0carbon\u00a0atom farthest from the acidic group or on the\u00a0penultim<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/penultimate\">ate<\/a>\u00a0carbon. Other bacteria incorporate a cyclopropane ring near the centre of the acyl chain. The bacterium that causes\u00a0tuberculosis\u00a0(<em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/em>) synthesizes a whole family of cyclopropane-containing fatty acids called \u03b1-mycolic acids. Similar fatty acids are found in related bacteria. A third common\u00a0constituent\u00a0is a\u00a0hydroxyl group\u00a0(OH). Monohydroxyl acids are found in both plants and animals in relatively small amounts, but they are more prevalent in bacteria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the very common fatty acids with straight saturated or unsaturated acyl chains, many fatty acids are chemically modified by substituents on the\u00a0hydrocarbon\u00a0chain. For example, the preening gland of ducks secretes a\u00a0fatty acid\u00a010 carbons long with methyl (CH3) groups substituted for one of the hydrogens on carbons 2, 4, 6, and 8. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lipids"],"Cooking_time":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cake.appscodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}