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Table 2 Physicochemical properties of MBE regarding thermal behavior

From: High cell density production of multimethyl-branched long-chain esters in Escherichia coli and determination of their physicochemical properties

Material

PP (°C)

DSC

P-DSC

TO (°C)

TCOM (°C)

TOX (°C)

TPK (°C)

A

MBE

–6.00

–9.36

–6.27

188.18

204.03

Methyl oleate

–42.50

–17.66

164.00

ND

Methyl tetracosanoate

58.60

55.33

60.07

ND

ND

B

Jojoba oil [20, 38, 40]

9.00

12–15a

16–25a

188

208

Epoxidized ricinoleic acid [15]

9.00

60

228

Epoxidized oleic acid [39]

0.00

75

164

  1. ND not determined
  2. A values obtained from PP, DSC, and P-DSC analyses of MBE wax esters as well as methyl oleate and methyl tetracosanoate used as references (see “Methods”). Data shown represent the mean of independent experiments, SD ≤ 0.59
  3. B values obtained from the literature for jojoba oil, jojoba oil synthetic esters and epoxidized ricinoleic and oleic acids
  4. aValues corresponding to C40 jojoba wax-like synthetic esters [38]