When oil from the head of the sperm whale is cooled, spermaceti, a translucent wax with a white, pearly luster, crystallizes from the mixture. Spermaceti, which makes up 11% of sperm whale oil, is composed of mainly hexadecyl hexadecanoate (cetyl palmitate). At one time, spermaceti was widely used in the making of cosmetics, fragrant soaps, and candles. Draw the structural formula of spermaceti. (Hint: Hexadecane, the parent hydrocarbon, is CH3(CH2)14CH3.)
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