Waste cooking oil contains free fatty acids as well as triacylglycerols. Draw the chemical equation (with molecular structures) for the acid-catalysed esterification of octanoic acid with 1-propanol (Fischer esterification). Show the product(s).

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Waste cooking oil contains free fatty acids as well as triacylglycerols. Draw the chemical equation (with molecular structures) for the acid-catalysed esterification of octanoic acid with 1-propanol (Fischer esterification). Show the product(s).

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