Glycerol, also called glycerine. Glycerol is easily soluble in water due to the ability of polyol groups to form hydrogen bonds with water molecules.
Dear Maham Khan
glycerol is hydrophobic Also check this paper , i hope its help you
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Glycerol has high dielectric constant 42.5 and is freely miscible with water. So it is hydrophilic. Perhaps some of its derivatives are hydrophobic.
Dear Maham
'Glycerols have backbone made up of long hydrocarbon chains, these hydrocarbon compounds are nonpolar in nature and they are significantly repulsive to to polar water molecules. That's why Glycerol are hydrophobia in nature.
thank you Danial soleymani-ghoozhdi Sengottuvelan Balasubramanian Aqsa Nazir Ali A. Al-Allaq
Shall I cite from the link provided by Ali A. Al-Allaq: "...low solubility of highly hydrophobic compounds and gases in glycerol..." because it is hydrophilic. It may form hydrophobic derivatives though.
Glycerol has no long backbone either, it contains only 3 carbons while each bears a highly hydrophilic hydroxyl group. That makes the whole molecule hydrophilic.