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Food Lipids: Chemistry, Nutrition, and Biotechnology

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Scheme 10 Metabolic alterations of vitamin D 3.<br />

The most interesting analogs possessing hormonal activity are the 26,26,26,27,27,27hexafluoro-1,25-(OH)<br />

2D 3 <strong>and</strong> 24,24-F2-1,25(OH) 2D 3, which possess all responses to<br />

the vitamin D hormone but are 10–100 times more active than the native hormone.<br />

The fluoro groups on the side chain block the metabolism of these compounds.<br />

All vitamin D compounds possess a common triene structure. Thus, it is not<br />

surprising that they have the same ultraviolet maximum at 265 nm, a minimum of<br />

Figure 3 Structures of known nutritional forms of vitamin D.<br />

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