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Fat‐based surface‐active agents
Author(s) -
Stirton A. J.
Publication year - 1954
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02638576
Subject(s) - cationic polymerization , natural product , raw material , aqueous solution , chemistry , organic chemistry , product (mathematics) , polymer science , combinatorial chemistry , mathematics , geometry
Summary A review of the fat‐based anionic, cationic, and nonionic surface‐active agents, primarily those useful in aqueous solution, has shown that the natural fats and fatty acids are particularly suitable raw materials. Because of the presence of the hydrophobic chain and of a carboxyl group by means of which hydrophilic character can be imparted, a greater variety of surface active agents have been made from the fatty acids than from any other single source. The references cited include a text (44) and a symposium (28) on the chemistry and technology of surface‐active agents, and indices of trade names with a brief description of the commercial product (23, 48).