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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Geobiology. 2009 Oct 7;7(5):524–532. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2009.00217.x

Table 1.

Summary of hopanoids detected by high-temperature GC-MS and their identifying fragment ions.

Hopanoid Molecular
ion
Side-chain
Loss
A+B ring
fragment ion
D+E ring
+ side chain
acetate of 1 714 369 191 493
acetate of 2 728 383 205 493
acetate of 3 786 383 205 551