On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 10:19  AM, mohamed hassan wrote:

> what will happen to the estrification reaction when a
> double alcohol is ued something like 1,3, proban di ol
> would the reaction be faster or slower???
> how does the FAME of this behave????
> will having 2 alcohol groups means using less
> alcohol???

Brian is correct -- you'd end up with nearly a diglyceride,
except without the pendant hydroxyl group, so it wouldn't
be polar. Still rather high viscosity, I'd imagine -- probly
wouldn't work without preheating, since biodiesel barely
does.     -K



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