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Anyways in most cases Johnny what the difference between the two is that while cis double bonds have both substitutents on the same side, whereas trans have these on opposite sides. Oh boy, I can't wait to get hard on these babies!
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What is a trans fat and how did it get in your margarine?
Unsaturated fat. there is double bonds between the carbons making it semi solid. It gets in margarine by the process of hydrogenation.
What is trans fatty acid?
"Trans" fats are unsaturated (with double bonds) triglycerides (fats) where the double bonds are in a trans conformation as opposed to a cis conformation. Only cis conformation is found in nature. In the cis conformation, the two carbon chains on either end of the double bond bend to the same side while in the trans conformation, the two carbon chains bend to opposite sides. Here's a diagram (the horizontal line is the double bond):\_/ cis\_...\ trans (... are placeholders)Cis double bonds introduce a bend in a fatty acid chain and therefore unsaturated fats with cis double bonds contain bends and occupy more space, leading to lower melting temperature (harder to make solid, usually liquid at room temperatures). The hydrogenation process seeks to make the saturate the double bonds to single bonds by adding hydrogen to the double bonds, making the fatty acids linear and the melting point of the fat higher (solid at room temperature for better storage, e.g. margarine). Trans double bonds are created from cis double bonds as a side-effect of the hydrogenation process, and it so happens that the trans geometry makes the fatty acid chain linear like a single bond. Therefore the hydrogenation process makes the fatty acid chains linear, whether by creating single bonds or trans double bonds, leading to the solidification of normally liquid oils (e.g. vegetable oil).It turns out that since the trans double bond is not found in nature, the body doesn't know how to handle it. The body senses that trans fats contain double bonds, but when the body puts them to use, their biochemical properties, being opposite to the natural cis fats, cause a variety of health risks, the most significant being cardiovascular diseases.
What is the difference between cis- and trans-fatty acids?
Just the difference between cis and trans isomers. The arrangement of functional groups around double bonded carbons. Same groups lined up on the same side are cis fatties and alternate groups lined up on the different sides are trans fatty acids.
What is the definition of Saturated fat?
With organic compounds, you can have carbon atoms bonded together with single bonds, double bonds, and triple bonds. If all of the carbon bonds in a fat are single bonds, the fat is saturated. If one of the bonds is a double bond, it is mono-unsaturated. If more than one bond is unsaturated, it is polyunsaturated. Sometimes industries add hydrogen to a double bond and make it hydrogenated. They can add it in one of two ways. They can make it a trans fat or they can make it a cis fat. Nature also hydrogenates fats. Nature makes cis fats. Your body has no problem with cis fats. Nature does not make trans fats. Your body has problems with trans fats. Industries can produce cis fats but find it easier to produce trans fats. Making trans fats illegal will force them to make cis fats.
What chemical characteristics of fatty acids determines their susceptibility to spoilage by oxygen?
Susceptibility to spoilage by oxygen of fatty acids is determined by the number of double bonds in the acid's carbon chain. Molecular oxygen can attack these bonds and break the chain, forming ketones. Incidentally, naturally-occuring cis-double bonds are more susceptible than the artificial trans-fatty acids.
Why are there three isomers of dibenzalacetone?
those are defined by position of double bonds, the possible one,s are cis-cis,cis-trans,trans-trans.
Does different types of fat affect cookies?
in general there are three types of fats: unsaturated (cis), saturated and trans fats. unsaturated fats refer to those with tails that contain at least one double bond. the configuration of the molecule around the double bond could be straight (trans) or bent (cis). See below. /=/ ---> trans /=\ ---> cis Conversely, saturated fats are those that have no double bonds and conform to the CnH2n+2 rule.
How many cis-trans isomers does gamma-linolenic acid have?
This is because it has 3 double bonds, it has 6 cis- trans isomer and since it has functional group of carboxylic acid which contains a double bond due to which there is 2 more isomers..Total = 8...Draw the structural formula to be more clear.
Is there a difference between a Chevy 350 motor and a Chevy 350 motor in a 2500 series truck?
No difference in the engine. It is all in the trans and the rearend
What is difference between cis trans Golgi complex?
Cis and trans refers to the different faces of a Golgi complex. Vesicles come into the cis face from the ER and leave from the trans face to the plasma membrane or Lysosomes.
What is the difference of a firebird and Trans Am?
The Trans Am was the performance version of the Firebird.
If Trans fats are inadvertently formed during the hydrogenation of vegetable oils is the hydrogenation of oils an oxidation or reduction reaction?
The parital hydrogenation of oils and fats reduces the cis double bonds in fats to give them a more solid form at room temperature. As the reduction process takes place at high temperatures, there is thermal isomerization of some of the cis bonds to their trans form.
