Researchers from Caltech and UC San Diego report very high performance catalysts to convert seed oils to olefins
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 30, 2015
Researchers from Caltech and UC San Diego have developed a family of ruthenium-based metathesis catalysts that have shown exceptional activity in the conversion of seed oils to linear-chain olefins. The ethanolysis of fatty acids derived from seed oils could provide a renewable source of LAOs. —Marx et al. Sullivan, A.
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