Draw the structure of a glycerophospholipid that contains palmitic acid, oleic acid, and the phosphate bonded to propanolamine.

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Welcome back, everyone. Draw the glycerophosphate lipid that has the following groups attached a mic acid, an alpha linoleic acid, a phosphate group bonded to cline. Now, what we're going to do is first, we'll draw glycerol if we remember gene with three hydroxyl groups. But instead of three hydroxyl groups, we simply want to add we oxygens because each hydrogen is going to be replaced with a specific side chain. And the first one that we are considering is metic acid. Now, Mastic acid has a form of C 14 to 0, which means 14 carbons, zero, double bonds. So we begin with Carboni which has carbon number one. And then let's add a total of 14 carbons. 12, we 4567, 89, 1011, 1213 and 14 carbons. So we have the first component. Then the next cy chain is going to have an alpha linoleic acid, which has a form of C 18 to 3, 18 carbons, three double bonds. And those double bonds begin at carbons nine 12 and 15. And we want to recall that double bonds will have a CIS configuration. So first of all, let's draw a car Bal, let's get to Carbo number nine. So 12, 345 678 and nine. This is where we want to draw a double bond in CIS configuration. Meaning the alki groups must be on the same side of the double bond. Let's label it as carbon number nine. And we have carbon number 1011 followed by carbon number 12. This is where we are going to get a double bond in cis configuration. So 1213, 14, then we have 15 where we have another double bond 16. So 1516, 17 and 18, the final carbon, we're adding a double bond between carbons 15 and 16. Then we have 1718 carbons. So we are done with this part. And finally, we have a phosphate group which involves, which involves phosphorus with one double bonded oxygen and three single bonded oxygens. Now let's not worry about the charges. We just know that phosphate is bonded to cline and cline essentially will have that oxygen followed by a three member chain. So let's draw one, two, we carbons 123. And then at the end of the chain, we're going to have nitrogen with three metal groups. And because nitrogen has four bonds, it is going to have a formal positive charge. And as we can notice, there's one oxygen remaining with one single bond, meaning it gets a formal negative charge. So we have got the final structure. Thank you for watching.

Draw the structure of a glycerophospholipid that contains palmitic acid, oleic acid, and the phosphate bonded to propanolamine.

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Glycerophospholipid Structure

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Phosphate Group and Propanolamine