Identify each of the following as a fatty acid, soap, triacylglycerol, wax, glycerophospholipid, sphingolipid, or steroid:
d. glyceryl tripalmitate (tripalmitin)

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Identify each of the following as a fatty acid, soap, triacylglycerol, wax, glycerophospholipid, sphingolipid, or steroid:

d. glyceryl tripalmitate (tripalmitin)

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Welcome back, everyone categorize the compound below as a tri ayl Glycerol, Glycerol, phospholipid, speno lipid or steroid and were given Glycerol tral methylate, which is also known as tral methylene. And essentially, according to this problem, if we break down the name, first of all, it states Glycerol, meaning it has if we remember chain, right? So we wanted for the structure of Glycerol, we have to recall that the three carbon atoms have 23 and two bonds, meaning we want to add two hydrogens followed by one, followed by two. And we know that Glycerol has three oxygens bonded to each carbon. And we can see try, right, followed by palmetto. Let's recall that palmetto essentially corresponds to a fatty acid that forms the given structure. And that fatty acid is palmetto league asset. There is no necessity to recall its complete structure. We can simply determine that trip palmetto corresponds to palmetto acid, right? And essentially what we have those would be we carbon bonded to oxygen. So we are, first of all going to have Carboy followed by an R group, right? Basically the side chain of Pome acid. And since the name suggests that it is triple meal, we have three equivalent side chains. Now, if we look at the given structure, we can classify it as a Tr ayl glycerol because it consists of the Glycerol backbone. We have wi carbon chain with wi oxygens followed by we carboxylic acid fragments which come from palmetto acid. So Glycerol plus fatty acid produces the final structure that we have drawn, which is called tri ale Glycerol. And that would be our final answer. Let's label it. And thank you for watching.

Identify each of the following as a fatty acid, soap, triacylglycerol, wax, glycerophospholipid, sphingolipid, or steroid:
d. glyceryl tripalmitate (tripalmitin)

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Triacylglycerol

Fatty Acid

Glycerol

Identify each of the following as a fatty acid, soap, triacylglycerol, wax, glycerophospholipid, sphingolipid, or steroid:d. glyceryl tripalmitate (tripalmitin)

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Key Concepts

Triacylglycerol

Fatty Acid

Glycerol

Identify each of the following as a fatty acid, soap, triacylglycerol, wax, glycerophospholipid, sphingolipid, or steroid:
d. glyceryl tripalmitate (tripalmitin)