CHAPTER 2: Chemical Synthesis of Carbonates, Esters, and Acetals from Soybean Oil
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Published:03 Nov 2014
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Special Collection: 2014 ebook collection , ECCC Environmental eBooks 1968-2022 , 2011-2015 environmental chemistry subject collectionSeries: Green Chemistry
K. M. Doll, in Green Materials from Plant Oils, ed. Z. Liu and G. Kraus, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014, pp. 28-40.
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Vegetable oil is a convenient material for the production of agricultural products. Unfortunately, it does have drawbacks for some applications, an example being insufficient oxidative stability. Using chemistry, these problems can be solved. For example the epoxidized product formed from methyl oleate, oxidizes at a temperature that is 44 °C higher than the starting material and the carbonated material is even more stable. A short history of these compounds is reviewed herein, before moving on to the modern synthetic methods for production. Coverage ranges from epoxides, to carbonates, and also to branched ester and acetal compounds, all from vegetable oil.
