Abstract
Three glycolipids (1-3) were isolated from the basidiolichen Dictyonema glabratum. Their carbohydrate and lipid components were structurally characterized using 1D 1H and 13C and 2D NMR spectroscopy, complemented by mass spectrometry, as were the carbohydrate moieties formed on saponification. These were O-alpha-D-Galp-(1''-->6')-O-beta-D-Galp-(1'<-->1)-2, 3-diacyl-D-glycerol (2) and two others not previously found in lichens, O-beta-D-Galp-(1'<-->1)-2,3-diacyl-D-glycerol (1) and O-alpha-D-Galp-(1'''-->6'')-O-alpha-D-Galp-(1' '-->6')-O-beta-D-Galp-(1'<-->1)-2,3-diacyl-D-glycerol (3). Each was saponified to give the free carbohydrates and its fatty acid methyl esters. The most abundant fatty acid esters in 1-3 was palmitic C16:0, but there was a wide variation of ester composition. Others present were C8:0 and C14:0 in 1, C14:0, C15:0, C17:0, C18:0, C18:1 (oleic), C18:2 (linoleic), C22:0, and C24:0 in 2, and C8:0, C14:0, C18:0, C18:1 (oleic), C18:2 (linoleic), and C18:3 (linolenic) in 3. As in ascolichens, the glycolipids appear to arise from the phycobiont.
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