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IT was shown recently that washed, non-germinating spores of Penicillium roqueforti are capable of producing 2-heptanone from caprylic acid1. In examining the mechanism of this reaction2, other fungal spores were examined for their ability to produce a ketone from the fatty acid. It is significant that spores from almost half the fungi selected converted caprylic acid to heptanone, thus indicating the more general occurrence of a reaction thought to be limited to only a few moulds.
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Gehrig, R. F., and Knight, S. G., Nature, 182, 1237 (1958).
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GEHRIG, R., KNIGHT, S. Formation of 2-Heptanone from Caprylic Acid by Spores of Various Filamentous Fungi. Nature 192, 1185 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1921185a0
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