Potassium Hydroxide → N-(2,3-dihydroxypropyl)-N-tetradecyl-2-hydroxyoctanamide

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N-(2,3-dihydroxypropyl)-N-tetradecylamine (1.0 g, 0.0035 mole) and potassium hydroxide (0.01 g, 0.18 mmole) were heated to 85° C. under vacuum and methyl-2-hydroxyoctanoate (0.667 g, 0.0038 mole) was added dropwise to the reaction. The reaction was heated under vacuum for 5 hours. A waxy off-white solid was obtained (crude yield=1.33 g). The waxy solid was recrystalized from hot hexane (yield=0.4 g).

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