Talk:Pinolenic acid

fishy broken citation

citation #5 on the list is broken and it's for a weight loss claim... i doesn't know how to does is this help? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.104.9.16 (talk) 11:26, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

PubChem unreliable here

This is difficult to get right. I relied on PubChem for a lot of the chem info; it's usually a good source:

• PubChem. "PubChem - CID 5312493". Retrieved 2007-10-25.

But here it's all messed up. They've got pinolenic equivalent to columbinic; and they show both of them as all trans. All the other literature says that pinolenic is all cis and columbinic is trans/cis/cis. If they're right—most everything else I turn up with Google scholar is wrong.David.Throop 03:42, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

PubChem has many errors. The database is generated from third-party submissions and there doesn't seem to be a high degree of quality control. You are definitely better off doing as you have done and relying on the primary literature. --Ed (Edgar181) 20:35, 28 October 2007 (UTC)