FUCOIDIN .2. THE HYDROLYSIS OF A METHYLATED FUCOIDIN PREPARED FROM FUCUS-VESICULOSUS
FUCOIDIN .2. THE HYDROLYSIS OF A METHYLATED FUCOIDIN PREPARED FROM FUCUS-VESICULOSUS
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DOI:
10.1039/jr9500000827
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发表时间:
1950-01-01
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PERCIVAL, EGV
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CONCHIE, J;PERCIVAL, EGV
L-Fucose (ca. 1 part), 3-methyl L-fucose (ca. 3 parts) and 2: 3-dimethyl L-ftlcose (ca. 1 part) have been identified in the carbohydrate portion of the hydrolysate of a methylated fucoidin. A branched structure in which 1: 2-a-links predominate is suggested for the polysaccharide.THE fucoidin used in this series of experiments was prepared from dried, ground Fucus vesiculosus collected in the summer months of 1945. The product was comparable with the specimens of fucoidin described in Part I (J., 1950, 717) but the intensive purification was not applied. It had [a] g-118", gave 38% of L-fucose on hydrolysis, and contained Ca 5.9, Mg 0-2, Na 0-9, K 0-1-0-2, and SO, 32* 8y0, the sulphate of the ash accounting for half the total sulphate. It required 36 hours at 100" to remove 36% of the total sulphate with N-sodium hydroxide. Methylation with sodium hydroxide and methyl sulphate gave a product having [a] g-107'and containing Ca 5.1, Mg 0.2, Na 0.8, K 0-05, SO, 25.9, and OMe 15.8 y0, in which the sulphate in the ash comprised 57% of the total. Evidently, therefore, as for the carragheen polysaccharides (Buchanan, Percival, and Percival, J., 1943, 51; Dewar and Percival, J., 1947, 1622) the metals combined with the sulphate group were not displaced by sodium during the methylation process. That all the available hydroxyl groups were substituted in the above product was shown by the fact that on treatment with acetic anhydride and pyridine an insignificant amount of acetylation occurred. The acetyl content of fucoidin acetate was found to be lS. O~ o. If the basic formula is assumed to be (C, H, 0, S0, Ca,. 5), the methylated derivative would contain OMe 12-0y0, and the acetate OAc 15* 0y0. The slightly higher values obtained in practice are attributed to the presence of small amounts of more highly substituted" foreign" polysaccharides rather than to the loss of sulphate groups from the substituted fucose units during methylation.