| Chemical Properties | Ethyl octadecanoate is virtually odorless. |
| Chemical Properties | white crystalline mass |
| Occurrence | Reported found in Jamaican rum, maple syrup, grapefruit juice, guava, grapes, cognac, rum, whiskey, sparkling wine, mustard, beef, cocoa and corn oil. |
| Uses | A fatty acid ester component of volatile oil from Rhododendron anthopogonoides; shows antimicrobial activity. |
| Definition | ChEBI: A long-chain fatty acid ethyl ester resulting from the formal condensation of the carboxy group of stearic acid with the hydroxy group of ethanol. |
| Preparation | By esterification of ethanol with stearic acid. |
| General Description | Ethyl stearate is a fatty acid ethyl ester (FAEE) is commonly found in vegetable oils. |
| Purification Methods | The solid portion is separated from the partially solid starting material, then crystallised twice from EtOH, dried by azeotropic distillation with *benzene, and fractionally distilled through a spinning-band column at low pressure [Welsh Trans Faraday Soc 55 52 1959]. [Beilstein 2 IV 1218.] |
