Description

• General description: Soybean oil (SBO) is a vegetable oil widely used as biodegradable lubricant.[1] It increases left ventricular contractility associated myosin ATPase and sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium pump (SERCA2a) in isolated hearts from rats.[2] SBO is shown to reduce both total and non-HDL serum cholesterol and triglycerides induced by atherogenic diet in rats.[3] It may be transesterified to biodiesel using CaO as a solid base catalyst.[4] It may also be transesterified to biodiesel using methanol and ethanol.[5]
• Application: Soybean oil from Sigma is suitable for use:in the determination of freezing point of soybean oil[6]as a standard at 0.1% in chloroform during the quantification of lipid by a vanillin-phosphoric acid reaction[7]as a delivery vehicle of α-lipoic acid[3]to dissolve tamoxifen[8] It may be used as a crude source for triglycerides and other lipids. Soybean oil is a potential raw material in oxygenated fatty acid production.[9] It may be used in the synthesis of epoxidized-soybean oil (ESO).[10]