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The refinement of renewable resources: New important derivatives of fatty acids and glycerol
Author(s) -
Behr Arno,
Gomes Jessica Pérez
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
european journal of lipid science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.614
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1438-9312
pISSN - 1438-7697
DOI - 10.1002/ejlt.200900091
Subject(s) - renewable energy , glycerol , renewable resource , homogeneous , sunflower oil , rapeseed , chemistry , catalysis , organic chemistry , fossil fuel , chemical industry , pulp and paper industry , business , food science , biology , mathematics , ecology , combinatorics , engineering
During the last years, the industrial significance of renewable resources has highly increased. The ever‐growing use of fossil resources for energy consumption, polymers, fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals and the therefore steadily increasing price favour the substitution of oil and gas by renewable resources. Here, especially products of catalytic functionalisations of vegetable fats and oils such as rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, palm oil or coconut oil play a decisive role. The present article gives a survey of several important catalytic functionalisations of fatty compounds and glycerol resulting in new attractive products. With their emerging properties, they could find a rapid introduction into the chemical market. Particularly the functionalisations via heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis, like additions, reductions, oxidations and metathesis reactions, will be presented.