Chemistry Saturday: Cis and trans fats

Original post can be found here…When we have a double bond on a fatty acid, it can be in either the cis- or trans- configuration. What exactly does this mean?In the cis configuration, the missing hydrogen atoms are on the same side of the double bond (cis means “same”). The molecules bend at the site…

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