Hi I hope some one can help me. How do you calculate how many different triglycerides can be made from a glycerol and three fatty acids. How many triglycerides...
If I understand correctly, it's a matter of the number of permutations of three different fatty acids, A, B, and C: AAA AAB AAC ABA ABB ABC ACA ACB ACC BAA BAB...
Dear Angela I covered this point in my book Fatty Acid and Lipid Chemistry (1996) which I am rewriting at the present time. I think the following excerpt will...