Figure 2.
The relationship between the expected 13C enrichment (at.% excess) in the carboxyl leucine carbon and the observed 13C enrichment in N-acetyl n-propyl (NAP)–leucine (11 carbon atoms) measured by capillary GC/combustion IRMS. The equation for the line is Y = 0.0962X + 0.0001, r=0.998 (n = 21), and the 99th percentile confidence intervals are given by the dotted lines. The delta (δ) values versus PDB for NAP-leucine are shown in parentheses (mean ± SD) compared to a measured value of −27.71 ± 0.12 for natural NAP–leucine.