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Science 3 September 1976:
Vol. 193. no. 4256, pp. 885 - 886
DOI: 10.1126/science.193.4256.885
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Inositol Isomers: Occurrence in Marine Sediments

ROBERT H. WHITE 1 and STANLEY L. MILLER 1

1 Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093

A combined gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric technique was used to identify and quantitate the occurrence of myo-, chiro-, and scyllo-inositol in marine sediments. The most abundant isomer was myo-inositol. These inositols were found in all the organic-rich sediment samples examined, and the amount of inositol decreased steadily with the age of the sample. A small fraction of the inositols occurred as hexaphosphate esters.

Submitted on March 29, 1976
Revised on May 21, 1976


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