c) 1 The ghee only melts at 27 °C after the physical processing, so the company decides to try an inter-esterification reaction between the coconut oil and a triglyceride only composed of steric acid (sn:18:0-18:0-18:0). The inter-esterification reaction is shown below. 2 3 O O H₂C-O-C-(CH2) 16CH3 H3C(H₂C)10-C-O-CH O H₂C-O-C-(CH2) 16CH3 4
Catalysis and Enzymatic Reactions
Catalysis is the kind of chemical reaction in which the rate (speed) of a reaction is enhanced by the catalyst which is not consumed during the process of reaction and afterward it is removed when the catalyst is not used to make up the impurity in the product. The enzymatic reaction is the reaction that is catalyzed via enzymes.
Lock And Key Model
The lock-and-key model is used to describe the catalytic enzyme activity, based on the interaction between enzyme and substrate. This model considers the lock as an enzyme and the key as a substrate to explain this model. The concept of how a unique distinct key only can have the access to open a particular lock resembles how the specific substrate can only fit into the particular active site of the enzyme. This is significant in understanding the intermolecular interaction between proteins and plays a vital role in drug interaction.
Copy the reaction scheme and draw the structural formulae of the two triglycerides (1) and (2) that could produce the triglyceride product 4. Indicate which two fatty acids have swapped between the starting triglycerides by labelling them as a and b in the starting materials and product.
What other reagent (3) is needed to carry out the inter-esterification reaction above?
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