Draw cholesterol acetate. Is this molecule saponifiable? Explain.

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Welcome back, everyone. Draw the molecular structure of testosterone propionate. Can this molecule beside why? So first of all, what we're going to do is draw the steroid backbone. We want to draw we six membered ranks. So let's begin by drawing we six membered ranks. Now we also want to recall that finally, we have a five member rang bonded to the previously drawn six membered ring. So essentially what we want to do is add appropriate functional groups and appropriate configurations to our steroid backbone to get testosterone. Let's recall that testosterone, first of all has a muscle group pointing up on a wedge followed by an a Jason Carol center that has hydrogen pointing down on a dashed bond. Then we have hygen pointing up on a wedge, another hygen pointing down on a dashed bond. We also have a muscle group winding up on a wedge. And then let's understand that. Most importantly, we have her Bunel within one of our ranks. Essentially, we are adding a double bonded oxygen. And since it is an alphabet unsaturated ketone, we also want to add a pi bond within the same rank adjacent to Carbel, right, we have that conjugation in addition to that the remaining position that is a coral center contains hydroxyl on a wedge. So that's testosterone. But in the context of this problem, we went to form testosterone propionate, which is an ester since it has an alcohol group, specifically testosterone has that oh we can form an ester by performing a reaction with propionic acid, right. So what we're going to do is simply add propionic acid, which has a total of three carbon atoms, 123. And when we perform the reaction, oh combines with hydrogen to produce water, and then we are simply forming an ester bond right? Within the original structure. So what we're going to do is replace the oh, now, let's not worry about the reaction conditions to be completely accurate. We can draw the reversible arrows. We need temperature and sulfuric acid or this reaction. But finally, to draw the required structure, we want to draw the resultant ester. So there'll be oxygen followed by Car Bono. And as we can see, we have three carbons. So 12 and three and that's it. We have determined the structure needed for this problem. Let's label it as our final answer. And thank you for watching.

Draw cholesterol acetate. Is this molecule saponifiable? Explain.

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Key Concepts

Cholesterol Acetate Structure

Saponification

Ester Bonds and Hydrolysis