Editing Glycerol (section)

==Structure==
Although [[chirality|achiral]], glycerol is [[prochirality|prochiral]] with respect to reactions of one of the two primary alcohols. Thus, in substituted derivatives, the [[Glycerophospholipid#Nomenclature and stereochemistry|stereospecific numbering]] labels the molecule with a ''sn''- prefix before the stem name of the molecule.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Hirschmann|first=H.|date=1960-10-01|title=The Nature of Substrate Asymmetry in Stereoselective Reactions|journal=Journal of Biological Chemistry|volume=235|issue=10|pages=2762–2767|doi=10.1016/S0021-9258(18)64537-5|pmid=13714619|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |date=1967-09-01|title=IUPAC-IUB Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature (CBN)|journal=European Journal of Biochemistry|volume=2|issue=2|pages=127–131|doi=10.1111/j.1432-1033.1967.tb00116.x|pmid=6078528|doi-access=}}</ref><ref name="pmid29301208">{{cite journal | vauthors=Alfieri A, Imperlini E, Nigro E, Vitucci D, Orrù S, Daniele A, Buono P, Mancini A | title=Effects of Plant Oil Interesterified Triacylglycerols on Lipemia and Human Health | journal= [[International Journal of Molecular Sciences]] | volume=19 | issue=1 | pages=E104 | year=2017 | doi= 10.3390/ijms19010104 |  pmc =5796054 | pmid = 29301208 | doi-access=free}}</ref>