| Abstract: | Formation of Oleic Acid Epoxide at the Storage of Oleic Acid of Technical Quality Oleic acid epoxid 1 is produced by reaction with 9S-hydroperoxy-10-cis-12-trans-otadecadienoic acid 2 (9S-linoleic acid hydroperoxid, 9S-LOOH) slowly at room temperature. 9S-LOOH is obtained in a slow reaction, if linoleic acid is kept at room temperature in the air. Thus oleic acid of technical quality which contains always 10–30% of linoleic acid is transformed slowly even at room temperature (via oxidation of linoleic acid to its hydroperoxide) into oleic acid epoxide. |
