Carboxylic Acids. Lipids are a macromolecule we need to survive and many of them happen to...

Carboxylic Acids. Lipids are a macromolecule we need to survive and many of them happen to contain carboxylic acids. Choose one lipid - could be a particular steroid, fatty acid, or tri-glyceride and discuss its structure and potential reactivity. please cite on source using APA citation format.

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Here we have taken cholesterol as the lipid and shows its raactivity.

Murphy, R. C., & Johnson, K. M. (2008). Cholesterol, Reactive Oxygen Species, and the Formation of Biologically Active Mediators. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 283(23), 15521–15525. http://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.R700049200

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