The hydroxy fatty acids: Isolation, structure determination, quantitation

This review and commentary on quantitative methodology of the hydroxy fatty acids covers methods of isolation, structure determination, and quantitative analysis. Individual topics are: methods of liberation from bound form, separation by partition, separation by partition columns, separation by precipitation, separation by adsorption columns, separation by thin‐layer chromatography, separation of homologous fatty acids, locating the hydroxyl group, characterization of the optically active hydroxyl group, locating the double bonds, gravimetric determination, colorimetric determination, gas chromatographic determination, infrared absorption, titrimetric determination, and radiometric determination.