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    The document discusses storage lipids, which are fatty acids and their derivatives that are almost universally used as stored forms of energy in living organisms. Fatty acids are hydrocarbon derivatives that are highly reduced, similar to hydrocarbons in fossil fuels. When fatty acids are oxidized in cells to produce CO2 and H2O, it is a highly exergonic process like the burning of fossil fuels. The document then introduces the structures and nomenclature of the most common fatty acids found in organisms, including that they are carboxylic acids ranging from 4 to 36 carbons in length, and can be saturated, unsaturated, or contain other functional groups.

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    The document discusses storage lipids, which are fatty acids and their derivatives that are almost universally used as stored forms of energy in living organisms. Fatty acids are hydrocarbon derivatives that are highly reduced, similar to hydrocarbons in fossil fuels. When fatty acids are oxidized in cells to produce CO2 and H2O, it is a highly exergonic process like the burning of fossil fuels. The document then introduces the structures and nomenclature of the most common fatty acids found in organisms, including that they are carboxylic acids ranging from 4 to 36 carbons in length, and can be saturated, unsaturated, or contain other functional groups.

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    10.

    1 Storage Lipids
    The fats and oils used almost universally as stored forms
    of energy in living organisms are derivatives of fatty
    acids. The fatty acids are hydrocarbon derivatives, at
    about the same low oxidation state (that is, as highly
    reduced) as the hydrocarbons in fossil fuels. The cellular
    oxidation of fatty acids (to CO2 and H2O), like the
    controlled, rapid burning of fossil fuels in internal combustion
    engines, is highly exergonic.
    We introduce here the structures and nomenclature
    of the fatty acids most commonly found in living organisms.
    Two types of fatty acid–containing compounds,
    triacylglycerols and waxes, are described to illustrate
    the diversity of structure and physical properties in this
    family of compounds.
    Fatty Acids Are Hydrocarbon Derivatives
    Fatty acids are carboxylic acids with hydrocarbon chains
    ranging from 4 to 36 carbons long (C4 to C36). In some
    fatty acids, this chain is unbranched and fully saturated
    (contains no double bonds); in others the chain contains
    one or more double bonds (Table 10–1). A few
    contain three-carbon rings, hydroxyl groups, or methylgroup
    branches. A simplified nomenclature for these
    compounds specifies the chain length and number of
    double bonds, separated by a colon; for example, the
    16-carbon saturated palmitic acid is abbreviated 16:0,
    and the 18-carbon oleic acid, with one double bond, is
    18:1. The positions of any double bonds are specified by
    superscript numbers following _ (delta); a 20-carbon
    fatty acid with one double bond between C-9 and C-10
    (C-1 being the carboxyl carbon) and another between
    C-12 and C-13 is designated 20:2(_9,12). The most
    commonly occurring fatty acids have even numbers
    of carbon atoms in an unbranched chain of 12 to 24
    carbons (Table 10–1). As we shall see in Chapter 21, the
    even number of carbons results from the mode of

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