“…Experiments in which ['80]13-hydroperoxylinolenic acid was the substrate showed that only one of the hydroperoxy oxygen atoms was retained in the product. IR spectroscopy revealed absorptions at 1740 cm-' (ester carbonyl), 1700 and 1679 cm-' (a,f3-unsaturated ketone), 1635 cm-' (double bond a,f3 to a carbonyl), 980 cm-' (trans unsaturation), and 885 cm-' (trans epoxide) (14). NMR shifts were virtually identical to those reported by Gardner et al (4) for a mixture of 9,10-trans-epoxy-13-oxo-trans-11-and 12,13-trans-epoxy-9-oxo-trans-10-octadecenoic acids: 62.28 (t, methylene a to ester carbonyl), 62.93 (m, 1 H, epoxide proton a to methylene), 63.23 (dd, 1 H, epoxide proton a to a double bond), 66.45 (dd, 1 H, olefinic proton a to epoxide), 66.40 (s, 1 H, olefinic proton a to carbonyl), 62.51 (t, methylene a to conjugated carbonyl), multiplet centered on 65.44 (2 H, olefinic protons), 62.03 (m, methylene a to methyl and a to unsaturation).…”