To locate the position of the double bond in the fatty acid moiety of hybridorubrin C (
3), a sample was epoxidized with
meta‐chloroperoxybenzoic acid (mCPBA) followed by MS/MS analysis, as recently published:
[14] at first, 10 μg of
3 was incubated with 10 μg of mCPBA in 10 μL of CH
2Cl
2 at room temperature. The reaction was quenched after 10 min with 490 μL of CH
2Cl
2:MeCN (1:1). The same procedure was applied to an authentic reference sample of
cis‐octadecenoic acid [C18:1(9)].
Then, 1 μL of the samples was injected into an
UltiMate 3000 Series uHPLC (Thermo Fisher Scientific) equipped with a
C18 Kinetex column (1,7 μ
m, 150×2.1 mm, Phenomenex, Torrance, CA/USA) and the following gradient of H
2O+0.1 % formic acid (A) and MeCN+0.1 % formic acid (B): 1 % B for 2 min, increasing to 100 % B over 18 min, keeping 100 % B for further 4 min, flow rate 0.3 mL min
−1. This HPLC was connected to a maXis HD UHR‐ESI‐QTOF‐MS (Bruker) with the following parameters: scan range:
m/
z 50–1500, ion polarity: negative, capillary voltage: 4500 V, nebulizer pressure: 4.0 bar, dry heater: 200 °C, dry gas: 9.0 L min
−1, collision energy: 20.3–50.7 eV. Results are depicted in Figure S45.
Becker K., Pfütze S., Kuhnert E., Cox R.J., Stadler M, & Surup F. (2020). Hybridorubrins A–D: Azaphilone Heterodimers from Stromata of Hypoxylon fragiforme and Insights into the Biosynthetic Machinery for Azaphilone Diversification. Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany), 27(4), 1438-1450.