EPOXY ACIDS FROM OLEIC AND ELAIDIC ACIDS1

BH Nicolet, TC Poulter

Index: Nicolet; Poulter Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1930 , vol. 52, p. 1189

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Citation Number: 44

Abstract

By the carefully controlled action of chlorine on solutions of the potassium salts containing potassium carbonate, relatively pure chlorohydrins (IIa, b) of oleic acid and of elaidic acid were obtained, though neither could be made to~ olidify.~ The chlorohydrins, heated with alcoholic alkali, gave the epoxides (IVa, b), together with considerable amounts of unsaturated material which interfered seriously with the isolation of the desired products. ...