| Abstract: | Oxidative Procedure for Production of Short-Chain Carbon Acids from Unsaturated Fatty Acids For decades, the oxidation of oleic acid to acelaic and pelargonic acid has been carried out in industrial scale by ozone. The high costs of ozone production are a problematical point in this procedure. Thanks to the high selectivity the procedure is today still economic. Efforts to replace the ozone oxidation by an oxygen one haven't yet led to a procedure which can be applied in industry. In this work the oxygen oxidation of oleic acid with aldehyds as intermediary carrier of oxygen is reported. |
