Discussion:
Identification of type of fatty acid in kitchen
Since you forgot to label the fatty acid and the only experimental apparatus you have is a freezer how could you tell which one is which, explain?
You have three fatty acid in your kitchen but you forgot to label them. They are all the same length (they all have 20 carbons each)One is a saturated fatty acid, the other two you have exactly one double bond between the number 6 and the number 7 omega Carbons (they are omega 6 fatty acids). One of the unsaturated fatty acid is in the cis configuration and the other is trans configuration. Describe the relative shape of the three fatty acids. Since you forgot to label the fatty acid the only experimental apparatus you have is a freezer how could you tell which one is which, explain?