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Cyclopropene acids are a group of fatty acids. The best known cyclopropene acids are malvalic acid and sterculic acid.
Sterculic acid is present in sterculia oils and at low levels in kapok seed oil (~12%), cottonseed oil (~1%) and in the seeds of the tree Sterculia foetida (~65-78%). These acids are highly reactive and are destroyed during refining and hydrogenation of the oils. They have attracted interest because they inhibit the biodesaturation of stearic acid to oleic acid.
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- Carbocyclic fatty acids in plants: Biochemical and molecular genetic characterization of cyclopropane fatty acid synthesis of Sterculia foetida" 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 14 May 2002 pdf
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