In the unsaponifiable matter of refined olive oils and, frequently, virgin olive oils of bad quality, a new compound with polarity between those of squalene and triterpenic alcohols was isolated. Mass spectrometry of this compound and of their hydrogenated and; sililated derivatives, demonstrated that the compound was a long chain alcohol having 426 of molecular weight, polyisoprenic structure similar to that of squalene, and the hydroxyl group attached at the C-2 carbon atom.
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Lanzón et al. (1992) studied this question.