The Isolation and Identification of Batyl Alcohol and Cholesterol from Yellow Bone Marrow¹

Glyceryl-ether monooxygenase [EC 1.14.16.5]. A microsomal enzyme of ether lipid metabolism

“…They have been found in intestinal fat, cavity fat and liver oil of rat, in the domestic hen (particularly in the egg yolk), 16,47 bone marrow and milk of cattle and man, 48 spleen of pigs, 49 erythrocytes, 50 and in atherosclerotic arteries of man, 51 to name a few tissues. Glyceryl ethers are present in neonatal calf but their concentrations decrease rapidly after birth.…”

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF MARINE PRODUCTS. XI. THE OCCURRENCE OF OCTADECYL ALCOHOL, BATYL ALCOHOL, AND CETYL PALMITATE IN GORGONIAS1

“…Hydrolysis of the bis-phenylurethan of the dihydric gorgonia alcohol gave batyl alcohol, H0CH2CH0HCH20 (CH2) 17CH3, m.p. 68-69°, which like the batyl alcohol from fish oils (8) and bone marrow (7) showed a small positive rotation of (a)%5 + 1.4°. The identity of the dihydric gorgonia alcohol with batyl alcohol was finally established by the conversion of the former into octadecyl iodide, m.p.…”

Aliphatic Diether Analogs of Glyceride-Derived Lipids. I. Synthesis of D-α,β-Dialkyl Glyceryl Ethers*

“…The existence of long-chain ethers of glycerol in naturally occurring lipids has been known for many years (Deuel, 1951;Hilditch, 1956). Until recently, the only types of ether-containing lipids found were -glyceryl monoethers, such as batyl, chimyl, and selachyl alcohols in Elasmobranchs (Kamovsky et al, 1946;Kamovsky and Brumm, 1955;Ilallgren and Larsson, 1962a i and in mammals (Holmes et al, 1941;Kamovsky et al, 1946;Hallgren and Larsson, 1962b). These glyceryl ethers probably exist in vivo in the form of glycerides or phospholipids (Kamovsky, 1951), since they are obtained only after hydrolysis of the intact lipids.…”