Etherolenic acid is a divinyl ether oxylipin.1,2 It is a metabolite of linolenic acid that is formed in plants via 13-lipoxygenase-mediated formation of 13(S)-HpOTrE followed by conversion to the divinyl ether by divinyl ether synthase.
1.Grechkin, A.N., Fazliev, F.N., and Mukhtarova, L.S.The lipoxygenase pathway in garlic (Allium sativum L.) bulbs: Detection of the novel divinyl ether oxylipinsFEBS Letters371159-162(1995)
2.Hamberg, M.Biosynthesis of new divinyl ether oxylipins in Ranunculus plantsLipids37(4)427-433(2002)
![12-[1-I (E),3-I (Z)-HEXADIENYLOXY]-9(Z), 11(E)-DODECADIENOIC ACID Structure](/StructureFile/ChemBookStructure7/GIF/CB6358994.gif)