Chemistry - Biochemistry - Lipids and fats - Design a Soap Molecule

Students draw the saponification process and explain how soap works. Prompt sequence: 1) Draw a triglyceride (simplified: glycerol backbone + 3 long carbon chains with ester bonds). 2) Add NaOH - show the ester bonds breaking (hydrolysis). 3) Draw the 3 soap molecules produced: long hydrocarbon tail