Efficient method for Chain Multiplication of unsaturated fatty acids – synthesis of ultra long-chain compounds
Currently, there are only very few, costly synthetic routes for the production of ultra long-chain compounds, as they typically rely on tedious multistep reaction sequences.
At the University of Konstanz (in the course of a project funded by the Baden-Württemberg Foundation), an iterative method (any multiplication factor) has been developed that produces terminally functionalized, purely aliphatic compounds through a Chain Doubling approach starting from common monounsaturated fatty acids. All starting materials are readily available and the individual steps of the catalytic process do not involve further reagents. Moreover, there is only a small amount of byproducts which makes the method very efficient.
The method described here can be applied for the production of high-melting, purely aliphatic polymers and nanocrystals.
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