ALDEHYDE AND ALCOHOL COMPOSITIONS DERIVED FROM SEED OILS

• Main Authors: DERSTINE, CHRISTOPHER, W, PHILLIPS, JOE, D, ROESCH, BRIAN, M, THOMAS, P., J, SCHROCK, ALAN, K, JOUETT, RAY, H, OLSON, KURT, D, SANDERS, AARON, W, BABB, DAVID, A, PENG, WEI-JUN, LYSENKO, ZENON, GILCHRIST, JAMES, H, MORRISON, DONALD, L, BUNNING, DONALD, L, KANEL, JEFFREY, S
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 19.05.2010
• Subjects: ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES AND WAXES; CANDLES; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; DETERGENTS; FATS, OILS OR FATTY ACIDS BY CHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF FATS,OILS, OR FATTY ACIDS OBTAINED THEREFROM; FATTY ACIDS FROM FATS, OILS OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONSONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS; METALLURGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP

An aldehyde composition derived by hydroformylation of a transesterified seed oil and containing a mixture of formyl-substituted fatty acids or fatty acid esters having the following composition by weight: greater than about 10 to less than about 95 percent monoformyl, greater than about 1 to less than about 65 percent diformyl, and greater than about 0.1 to less than about 10 percent triformyl-substituted fatty acids or fatty acid esters, and having a diformyl to triformyl weight ratio of greater than about 5/1; preferably, greater than about 3 to less than about 20 percent saturates; and preferably, greater than about 1 to less than about 20 percent unsaturates.