Docosanoic Acid → Docosanoic acid, 3-hydroxy-2,2-bis(hydroxymethyl)propyl ester

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A four-necked rounded bottom flask equipped with a stirrer, a thermocouple, and a nitrogen inlet tube was charged with 4 mol of behenic acid per mol of pentaerythritol, and the contents were heated to 130° C. for 5 hours in a nitrogen atmosphere to carry out an esterification reaction. A reaction product was purified with methyl ether to provide pentaerythritol behenate. Here, the acid value was 0.4 mgKOH/g, and the hydroxyl value was 1.6 mgKOH/g.

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