Model studies and the ADMET polymerization of soybean oil

Q Tian, RC Larock

Index: Tian, Qingping; Larock, Richard C. JAOCS, Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, 2002 , vol. 79, # 5 p. 479 - 488

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Abstract

Abstract Grubbs' ruthenium catalyst 2 has been employed in model studies of the acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization of soybean oil. In the presence of 0.1 mol% of catalyst 2, the ADMET polymerization of ethylene glycol dioleate afforded the isomerized (E)- dioleate (27%), dimer (18%), trimer (13%), tetramer (7%), pentamer (5%), hexamer (4%), heptamer (4%), and 9-octadecene (21%). Only a trace of any intramolecular cyclized ...