Triglycerides natural esters

Drying oils. Naturally occurring oils used as paint binders or vehicles, usually of vegetable origin such as liquid triglycerides (naturally occurring esters) with three molecules of long-chain fatty acids attached to each... 

The general structure of a natural oil (vegetable oils or fats) is the structure of a triglyceride, the ester of glycerol and fatty acids (Figure 17.8). 

Classically, alkanolamides are condensation products of alkanolamines (mainly mono-, and diethanolamine and mono-isopropanolamine) with fatty acids, methyl esters or triglycerides (natural oils). 

Lipases are a diverse group of enzymes acting on a great variety of substrates, including natural oils, synthetic triglycerides, and esters of fatty acids. The reaction is catalyzed at the... 

A detailed classification of the chemical compounds usually employed was given by (Dubief et al., 2005). The most important of these are organic acids (carboxylic acids and aromatic sulphonic acids), fatty compounds and their derivatives (fatty acids, fatty alcohols, natural triglycerides, natural waxes, fatty esters, oxyethylenated and oxypropy-lenated waxes, partially sulphated fatty alcohols, lanolin and its derivatives, ceramides), vitamins (A, B and E) (see Section 8.6), protein derivatives (extracts or hydrolysates of keratin, collagen and vegetable proteins), silicones (dimethicone and others), cationic surfactants, cationic polymers, amphoteric and betainic polymers. 

Natural substrates Triglycerides Various esters Proteins... 

Fats are one of a group of compounds described as lipids. The compounds discussed here are triglycerides, the esters of propane-l,2,3-triol, known as glycerol, with long-chain fatty acids (Figure 11.95). All naturally occurring fatty acids have even numbers of carbon atoms, because they are built up biosynthetically from two-carbon units. 

Esters of glycerol called glycerol tnesters tnacylglycerols or triglycerides are abundant natural products The most important group of glycerol tnesters includes those m which each acyl group is unbranched and has 14 or more carbon atoms... 

Eats and oils from a number of animal and vegetable sources are the feedstocks for the manufacture of natural higher alcohols. These materials consist of triglycerides glycerol esterified with three moles of a fatty acid. The alcohol is manufactured by reduction of the fatty acid functional group. A small amount of natural alcohol is also obtained commercially by saponification of natural wax esters of the higher alcohols, such as wool grease. 

Esters. The mono- and diesters of glycerol and fatty acids occur naturally ia fats that have become partially hydrolyzed. The triglycerides are primary components of aaturaHy occurring fats and fatty oils. 

Although soaps have many physical properties in common with the broader class of surfactants, they also have several distinguishing factors. First, soaps are most often derived direcdy from natural sources of fats and oils (see Fats and fatty oils). Fats and oils are triglycerides, ie, molecules comprised of a glycerol backbone and three ester-linked fatty oils. Other synthetic surfactants may use fats and oils or petrochemicals as initial building blocks, but generally require additional chemical manipulations such as sulfonation, esterification, sulfation, and amidation. 

Carboxylate soaps are most commonly formed through either direct or indirect reaction of aqueous caustic soda, ie, alkaH earth metal hydroxides such as NaOH, with fats and oils from natural sources, ie, triglycerides. Fats and oils are typically composed of both saturated and unsaturated fatty acid molecules containing between 8 and 20 carbons randomly linked through ester bonds to a glycerol [56-81-5] backbone. Overall, the reaction of caustic with triglyceride yields glycerol (qv) and soap in a reaction known as saponification. The reaction is shown in equation 1. 

Sulfated Natural Oils and Fats. Sulfated natural triglycerides were the first nonsoap commercial surfactants introduced in the middle of the nineteenth century. Since then sulfates of many vegetable, animal, and fish oils have been investigated (see also Fats AND FATTY oils). With its hydroxyl group and a double bond, ricinoleic acid (12-hydroxy-9,10-octadecenoic acid) is an oil constituent particularly suited for sulfation. Its sulfate is known as turkey-red oil. Oleic acid is also suited for sulfation. Esters of these acids can be sulfated with a minimum of hydrolysis of the glyceride group. Polyunsaturated acids, with several double bonds, lead to dark-colored sulfation products. The reaction with sulfuric acid proceeds through either the hydroxyl or the double bond. The sulfuric acid half ester thus formed is neutralized with caustic soda ... 

Natural Ethoxylated Fats, Oils, and Waxes. Castor oil (qv) is a triglyceride high in ticinoleic esters. Ethoxylation in the presence of an alkaline catalyst to a polyoxyethylene content of 60—70 wt % yields water-soluble surfactants (Table 20). Because alkaline catalysts also effect transestenfication, ethoxylated castor oil surfactants are complex mixtures with components resulting from transesterrfication and subsequent ethoxylation at the available hydroxyl groups. The ethoxylates are pale amber Hquids of specific gravity just above 1.0 at room temperature. They are hydrophilic emulsifiers, dispersants, lubricants, and solubilizers used as textile additives and finishing agents, as well as in paper (qv) and leather (qv) manufacture. 

Natural fats are glycerol esters of fatty acids known as triglycerides. Unsaturated fats are generally liquids (oils) at room temperature, while triglycerides rich in saturated fatty acids are generally solids. View tristearin and triolein. Which one of these is saturated and which is unsaturated Are die double bonds in the unsaturated fat cis or transl... 

Esters of Q to Cn monocarboxylic acids [1288-1292], acid-methyl esters [1282], and polycarboxylic acid esters [1287], as well as oleophilic monomeric and oligomeric diesters [1293], have been proposed as basic materials for inverted emulsion muds. Natural oils are triglyceride ester oils [1844] and are similar to synthetic esters. Diesters also have been proposed [1293-1297]. 

Biodiesel is a fuel derived from renewable natural resources such as soybean and rapeseed and consists of alkyl esters derived from transesterification of triglycerides with methanol. In spite of all the advantages of biodiesel, such as low emissiotts, biodegradability, non-toxicity, and lubricity, the major hurdle in penetration of biodiesel is its high cost because of the expensive food grade refined vegetable oil feedstock. 

The physical and chemical properties of individual oils and fats are determined by the nature and proportions of fatty acids that enter into the triglycerides composition. Animal and dairy fat like plant oils are dominated by triacylglycerols, with steroids present as minor components, cholesterol and its esters being the most significant. The triacylglycerols of animal fats differ from plant oils since they contain more of the saturated fatty acids and consequently are solid at room temperature. 

The physiological functions of carboxylesterases are still partly obscure but these enzymes are probably essential, since their genetic codes have been preserved throughout evolution [84] [96], There is some evidence that microsomal carboxylesterases play an important role in lipid metabolism in the endoplasmic reticulum. Indeed, they are able to hydrolyze acylcamitines, pal-mitoyl-CoA, and mono- and diacylglycerols [74a] [77] [97]. It has been speculated that these hydrolytic activities may facilitate the transfer of fatty acids across the endoplasmic reticulum and/or prevent the accumulation of mem-branolytic natural detergents such as carnitine esters and lysophospholipids. Plasma esterases are possibly also involved in fat absorption. In the rat, an increase in dietary fats was associated with a pronounced increase in the activity of ESI. In the mouse, the infusion of lipids into the duodenum decreased ESI levels in both lymph and serum, whereas an increase in ES2 levels was observed. In the lymph, the levels of ES2 paralleled triglyceride concentrations [92] [98],... 

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