Lab Summary Questions Introduction Natural products are naturally occurring component of plants or animals useful as medicines, dyes, flavors, poisons, etc.
Natural source is a complex mixture of organic and inorganic compounds.
Heroic efforts are required by chemists to recover such vanishingly small quantities of natural product from the original plant or animal source. Chromatography usually must follow the primary separation. Trimyristin is a triglyceride, that is, a triester of glycerol. The fatty acid part of the ester is tetradecanoic acid. Trimyristin is in the family of natural products called lipids.