Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.

POPC is a chemical compound. It is a diacylglycerol and phospholipid. The full name is 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine. It is an important lipid for biophysical experiments and has been used to study various subjects such as lipid rafts. It is available commercially synthetically and is naturally present in eukaryotic cell membranes.

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IUPAC name
[(2R)-3-hexadecanoyloxy-2-[(Z)-octadec-9-enoyl]oxypropyl] 2-(trimethylazaniumyl)ethyl phosphate

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