Cognis Deutschland Gmbh & Co. Kg

Thomas B Downing

Ansgar Behler

Alfred Westfechtel

Norbert Huebner

Lothar Friesenhagen

C William Blewett

Norbert Klein

Gerrit Pelzer

Steven A Kennedy

A process for making branched, substantially unsaturated fatty alcohols involving: (a) providing a C fatty acid; (b) dimerizing the C fatty acid to form a monomer fraction containing branched, substantially unsaturated fatty acids; (c) removing the monomer fraction; (d) esterifying the branched, substantially unsaturated fatty acids contained in the monomer fraction into branched, substantially unsaturated fatty acid methyl esters; and (e) hydrogenating the branched, substantially unsaturated fatty acid methyl esters with their double bonds intact, to form the branched, substantially unsaturated fatty alcohols.

Process for making branched, substantially unsaturated fatty alcohols

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Thomas B Downing