Manuscript accepted on : October 08, 2007
Published online on: 03-02-2016
Argentated silica gel chromatography for separation of g-linolenic acid from microalgae
Srinivasa Reddy Ronda1* and Smita Lele2
1Koneru Lakshmaiah College of Engineering, Vaddeswaram, G?nter - 522 502 (India) 2University Institute of Chemical Technology, Matunga, Mumbai - 400 019 (India)
ABSTRACT: A low expense process is developed for recovery of g-linolenic acid from Spirulina platensis biomass. Simultaneous extraction and direct transmethylation of fatty acids from freeze dried biomass and subsequent purification using silver silica gel column chromatography resulted in 95.43% pure g-linolenic acid. The percent purity of g-linolenic acid in the fractions varied from 87.18 -95 %. A recovery of 74.05% g- linolenic acid was achieved using silver silica gel chromatography.
KEYWORDS: g-linolenic acid; silver silica gel column; chromatography; methyl ester
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