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Alcohols from menhaden oil by sodium reduction
Author(s) -
Pryde Everett H.
Publication year - 1951
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/bf02639742
Subject(s) - degree of unsaturation , double bond , conjugated system , glyceride , chemistry , sodium , organic chemistry , menhaden , polyunsaturated fatty acid , molecule , fatty acid , fish oil , polymer , fish <actinopterygii> , biology , fishery
Summary Menhaden oil, a low cost fatty acid glyceride containing a high percentage of polyunsaturated material, has been reduced by means of sodium with 86–88% yields of alcohols having a correspondingly high degree of unsaturation. It has been shown that about one‐half of the polyolefinic unsaturation isomerized during the sodium reduction to conjugated double bonded structures. The higher unsaturated alcohols were selectively hydrogenated to give a colorless product which was substantially odorless and which had an average of one double bond per molecule.