TY - JOUR
AB -  How to improve biodiesel? Due to its uniform chemical composition, unaltered biodiesel has a rather sharp boiling behavior. However, fuels with steadily increasing boiling curve, such as diesel fuels, show better ignition and combustion in the cylinder of the engine. In this paper [55–62], canola based biodiesel was synthetically modified via self‐ and cross‐metathesis with 1‐hexene to improve its boiling curve. The cross‐metathesis reaction produced compounds with shorter chains, resulting in biodiesel with good distribution of low to high molecular weight compounds and an almost steadily increasing distillation curve. In addition, several ruthenium zeolite catalysts effectively catalyzing the reactions were identified in this work. Montenegro, M.E. and Meier, M.A.R. Lowering the boiling point curve of biodiesel by cross‐metathesis. Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Technol . 2012, 114 , 55–62 Two‐step synthesis of bio‐based building blocks of polyurethanes A simple synthetic route towards a new class of renewable polyols from a vegetable oil is described [84–91]. Methyl esters of rapeseed oil were transesterified with ethylene glycol followed by a photoaddition of 2‐mercaptoethanol to double bonds, yielding pseudo‐telechelic polyols with an average functionality of 2 or slightly above. Polyaddition of these diols with methylene diphenyl‐4,4′‐diisocyanate yielded a polyurethane material with thermal 
TI - In this issue
JF - European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology
DO - 10.1002/ejlt.201290001
DA - 2012-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/in-this-issue-bOd0WNu7BU
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EP - n/a
VL - 114
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -