Unlike many fats and oils, the cocoa butter used to make chocolate is remarkably uniform in composition. All triacylglycerols contain oleic acid esteried to the 2° OH group of glycerol, and either palmitic acid or stearic acid esteried to the 1° OH groups. Draw the structures of two possible triacylglycerols that compose cocoa butter.

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Unlike many fats and oils, the cocoa butter used to make chocolate is remarkably uniform in composition. All triacylglycerols contain oleic acid esteried to the 2° OH group of glycerol, and either palmitic acid or stearic acid esteried to the 1° OH groups. Draw the structures of two possible triacylglycerols that compose cocoa butter.

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