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TU-Clausthal Institute of Organic Chemistry

Surfactants and fats

Topic 5: Surfactants and fats

Few people realize the wide range of experience and knowledge required to make a bar of soap. Chemically speaking, soap boilers work with the chemistry of the ester group. Reason enough to take a closer look at this functional group...

 

Soap boiling (saponification of olive oil)

Distinguishing a vegetable oil from a mineral oil

Distinguishing between butter and margarine

Syntheses of "pear (butyric acid isopentylester), pineapple (butyric acid ethyl ester) and peppermint esters (benzoic acid ethyl ester)

Syntheses of "pear (butyric acid isopentylester), pineapple (butyric acid ethyl ester) and peppermint esters (benzoic acid ethyl ester)

Learning effect: esters and esterification, saponification and soap effect, working on the water separator, chemical equilibrium.