The surface of the eye is wet by tears, and to minimize evaporation, the tear layer is coated with lipids. One of these lipids is built from oleic acid and a 32-carbon fatty acid that has a double bond between carbons 9 and 10 and a hydroxyl group attached to the omega carbon. The carboxyl group of oleic acid condenses with the hydroxyl group in the longer lipid. Draw the structure of the reaction product.

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The surface of the eye is wet by tears, and to minimize evaporation, the tear layer is coated with lipids. One of these lipids is built from oleic acid and a 32-carbon fatty acid that has a double bond between carbons 9 and 10 and a hydroxyl group attached to the omega carbon. The carboxyl group of oleic acid condenses with the hydroxyl group in the longer lipid. Draw the structure of the reaction product. 

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