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Esterification of Fatty Acids with Glycerol

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SINCE Berthelot's classical work on the esterification of fatty acids with glycerol, in the last century, considerable work has been done on the topic1–4. The presence of 2-monoglyceride in technical products of glycerolysis has been reported recently5 ; this was not noticed by Feuge et al.4 or by Becker et al.6 on the ground that 2-monoglyceride is prone to be quickly isomerized to the more stable 1-monoglyceride at the high temperature of the reaction. The present work on the esterification of lauric, myristic, palmitic, stearic, oleic and linoleic acids with glycerol was undertaken to clarify the question of the formation of 2-monoglyceride in the esterification reaction mixture.

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BISWAS, A., GANGULY, D. Esterification of Fatty Acids with Glycerol. Nature 188, 56–57 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/188056b0

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