Use condensed structural formulas to write the balanced chemical equation for the NaOH saponification of glyceryl trimyristate (trimyristin).

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Welcome back, everyone determine the balanced chemical equation for the saponification of Glycerol Trister wet sodium hydroxide. First of all, we want to draw the structure of Glycerol and we know that Glycerol consists of three carbon atoms, right. So essentially those carbon atoms are going to be bonded to o but since we're drawing an ether, in this case, this is Trister, we simply want to draw three oxygen atoms since hydrogens are going to be replaced with Carbonis right now, the first carbon has two bonds, we're adding two hydros, let's make it clear. So two hydrants followed by one hygen for the next carbon because it has wee bonds and then the final carbon also needs two hydros. Each oxygen is going to be bonded to carbonyl, right? Because we have an ester and specifically a tri ester. So we want to draw a Cabano for each part. And our goal is to identify the side chain bonded to each corbel, those would be coming from STAIC acid, right? Because we have Trister Aid and we have to recall that STAIC acid essentially has a total of 18 carbons. It is a saturated fatty acid. So we have our first one, then we will have 16 ch two units followed by CH three. And as we can see, we have 1 to 18 carbons total. So this is consistent and because we have twice, stay away, that essentially means that the other side chains will be exactly the same. So this is our starting structure try Ayl Glycerol. And we are performing a cation reaction, wet sodium hydroxide. So this is a basic hydrolysis of an aster, right? We essentially want to supply heat to the reaction. And we want to recall that whenever we are performing this reaction, we are, first of all going to get an alcohol and then we're going to get a carboxylate salt. So to get the products, first of all, we're going to consider how we get that alcohol. We want to break the carbon oxygen bonds. This will give us three exactly same carboxylate salts. And now we want to bond oh to each carbon to get the alcohol. Of course, the alcohol as always will be glycerol itself. So we can draw a three member chain with those hydrogen atoms bonded to carbons and then 30 age groups. So we have Glycerol as our first product. Now for carboxylate souls, we simply want to include three units because we are breaking three bonds. So we get three units of the same carboxylate. So three, now let's add co o with a negative charge. Our counter ion is going to be sodium cion, right? And then we went to draw the side chain see each to 16 times followed by C three. Now we want to balance the equation right. Essentially, we use three hydroxy from an A oh. And we can also see that we have we sodium cars on the right hand side. So we want to add a co efficient of three in front of NAOH as well. And this essentially balances the equation. So essentially we can label the final answer and conclude the video. Thank you for watching.

Use condensed structural formulas to write the balanced chemical equation for the NaOH saponification of glyceryl trimyristate (trimyristin).

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