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Researchers from Caltech and UC San Diego report very high performance catalysts to convert seed oils to olefins

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The ethanolysis of fatty acids derived from seed oils could provide a renewable source of LAOs. olefins (LAOs) and other terminal-olefin products. 2014), “Cyclic Alkyl Amino Carbene (CAAC) Ruthenium Complexes as Remarkably Active Catalysts for Ethenolysis” Angew. —Marx et al. Sullivan, A. Melaimi, M., Virgil, S.

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