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Fatty acid methyl esters were quantitated using a 0.53 mm × 15 m fused silica Megabore DB-225 column (J & W, Folsom, CA) in a gas chromatograph (Hewlett Packard, model 5890) equipped with an integrator.
At present, all we know is that silicon transporters and a group of long-chain, polyamine-containing proteins called silaffins, which act as nucleation points for silica deposition, are involved.
The proteins that diatoms use to direct silica deposition could be very useful to the semiconductor industry, says Sussman.
If we could work out how diatoms lay down micro lines of silica, then we may be able to simulate it’.
After stirring for 12 h at room temperature, the solvent was removed under reduced pressure and the crude product was purified by silica gel column chromatography using chloroform:hexane (8:2) as an eluent to provide 18 in 72% yield [ 31P NMR 105.