Everything about C18

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: C18A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm Formation and Virulence Factor Production by Petroselinic Acid and Other Unsaturated C18 Fatty AcidsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: ὈδύσσειαThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Chromatographic Characterization of Silica C18 Packing Materials. Correlation between a Preparation Method and Retention Behavior of Stationary PhaseCited 478 times
5. Go sideways: C17A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Battery nomenclatureA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Chromatographic Characterization of Silica C18 Packing Materials. Correlation between a Preparation Method and Retention Behavior of Stationary Phase

  K. Kimata, K. Iwaguchi, S. Onishi · 1989 · Journal of Chromatographic Science · 478 citations

• Resolution of lutein and zeaxanthin using a non-endcapped, lightly carbon-loaded C18 high-performance liquid chromatographic column

  Adam M. Gilmore, Harry Y. Yamamoto · 1991 · Journal of Chromatography A · 350 citations

• Synthesis and characterization of polymeric C18 stationary phases for liquid chromatography

  Lane C. Sander, Stephen A. Wise · 1984 · Analytical Chemistry · 313 citations

• The separation of the C12-C18 fatty acids by reversed-phase partition chromatography

  G. A. Howard, A. J. P. Martin · 1950 · Biochemical Journal · 279 citations

• A Relationship Between Reversed-Phase C18 Liquid Chromatographic Retention and the Shape of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

  S. Wise, W. J. Bonnett, F. R. Guenther · 1981 · Journal of Chromatographic Science · 268 citations

• Catalytic reaction pathways in liquid-phase deoxygenation of C18 free fatty acids

  Jeremy G. Immer, M. Jason Kelly, H. Henry Lamb · 2010 · Applied Catalysis A: General · 267 citations

• Upstream of Growth and Differentiation Factor 1 (uog1), a Mammalian Homolog of the Yeast Longevity Assurance Gene 1 (LAG1), RegulatesN-Stearoyl-sphinganine (C18-(Dihydro)ceramide) Synthesis in a Fumonisin B1-independent Manner in Mammalian Cells

  Krishnan Venkataraman, Christian Riebeling, Jacques Bodennec · 2002 · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 257 citations

• Comparison between the efficiencies of columns packed with fully and partially porous C18-bonded silica materials

  Fabrice Gritti, Alberto Cavazzini, Nicola Marchetti · 2007 · Journal of Chromatography A · 244 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm Formation and Virulence Factor Production by Petroselinic Acid and Other Unsaturated C18 Fatty Acids

  Jin-Hyung Lee, Yong-Guy Kim, Jintae Lee · 2022 · Microbiology Spectrum · 80 citations

• Complexation ability and physicochemical properties of starch inclusion complexes with C18 fatty acids

  Jingyi Zhou, Jiayue Guo, Isabella Gladden · 2022 · Food Hydrocolloids · 59 citations

• Screening of immune cell activators from Astragali Radix using a comprehensive two-dimensional NK-92MI cell membrane chromatography/C18 column/time-of-flight mass spectrometry system

  Xinyi Chai, Yanqiu Gu, Lei Lv · 2022 · Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis · 54 citations

• The K2 Galactic Archaeology Program Data Release 3: Age-abundance Patterns in C1–C8 and C10–C18

  Joel C. Zinn, Dennis Stello, Yvonne Elsworth · 2022 · The Astrophysical Journal · 49 citations

• Metabolic engineering of Rhodotorula toruloides IFO0880 improves C16 and C18 fatty alcohol production from synthetic media

  J. Carl Schultz, Shekhar Mishra, Emily Gaither · 2022 · Microbial Cell Factories · 49 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• ὈδύσσειαὍμηρος · 1488
• ἹστορίαιἩρόδοτος · 1494
• History of the Peloponnesian WarThucydides · 1526
• FastiOvid · 1482
• A dictionary of the English languageSamuel Johnson · 1747
• The Celestine Prophecy - An AdventureJames Redfield · 1993
• An account, much abbreviated, of the destruction of the Indies, with related textsBartolomé de las Casas, Franklin W. Knight · 1552
• HistoriaeP. Cornelius Tacitus · 1852

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