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

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N-(2,3-dihydroxypropyl)-N-tetradecylamine (1.00 g, 0.0035 mole) and potassium hydroxide (0.01 g, 0.18 mmole) were heated to 85° C. under vacuum and methyl 2-hydroxyhexadecanoate (0.94 g, 0.0035 mole) was heated and added dropwise to the reaction. The reaction was heated under vacuum for 6 hours. A waxy off-white solid was obtained (crude yield=1.8 g). The waxy solid was recrystalized from hot hexane (yield=1.09 g)

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