Regio- and Stereospecific Analysis of Triacylglycerols—A Brief Overview of the Challenges and the Achievements
Open Access
- 27 January 2022
- Vol. 14 (2), 247
- https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14020247
Abstract
The efforts to reveal, in detail, the molecular and intramolecular structures of one of the main lipid classes, namely, triacyl-sn-glycerols, which are now known to affect their specific and important role in all living organisms, are briefly overviewed. Some milestones of significance in the gradual but continuous development and improvement of the analytical methodology to identify the triacylglycerol regio- and stereoisomers in complex lipid samples are traced throughout the years: the use of chromatography based on different separation principles; the improvements in the chromatographic technique; the development and use of different detection techniques; the attempts to simplify and automatize the analysis without losing the accuracy of identification. The spectacular recent achievements of two- and multidimensional methods used as tools in lipidomics are presented.Keywords
Funding Information
- Bulgarian Science Fund (DN 19/14)
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