Draw the condensed structural formula for a triacylglycerol that contains stearic acid and glycerol.

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Welcome back, everyone provide the condensed structural formula of a Tr Ayl glycerol consisting of the following components. We lno Seric acid see 24 to 0 molecules and glycerol just as every other triazole glycerol. We first all want to draw a three member chain to represent glycerol. So each carbon atom is going to be bonded to oxygen. And now we simply want to add hydrogen atoms to those carbons, two followed by one and two again. So now we are replacing Hagens from Glycerol with Carbonis, right? Because we're forming a tria glycerol. So instead of drawing the oxygen hydrogen bond, we are now drawing the oxygen carbonyl bond. This is where we have to consider the identity of the carboxylic acid used, right? We're using three lno Seric acid molecules and it says C 24 to 0. And it essentially means that our acid has 24 carbons and zero double bonds. So essentially, it is a straight chain, saturated fatty acid. How do we represent that? Well, essentially we, we already see one carbon. So we have 23 left, right. So we will have a straight chain with ch two units. We don't know how many followed by C three, the terminal carbon. So essentially, we can just draw C two, what's some unknown subscript followed by C three. And if we have 24 carbons, well, essentially, we have to subtract those 21 from carbonel, one from the metal group. And this gives us 22 C two units. And we simply want to repeat those side chains for the other carbons with glycerol, right? Because we have three lino Seric acid molecules. And therefore, we have drawn the structure of the tria glycerol of this problem. Thank you for watching.

Draw the condensed structural formula for a triacylglycerol that contains stearic acid and glycerol.

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Triacylglycerol Structure

Fatty Acids

Condensed Structural Formula