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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2001
Stephan Heck, Pulheim, DE;
Norbert Klein, Mettmann, DE;
Horst-dieter Komp, Langenfeld, DE;
Christiane Boehr, Leverkusen, DE;
Norbert Huebner, Duesseldorf, DE;
Alfred Westfechtel, Hilden, DE;
Stephan Heck, Pulheim, DE;
Norbert Klein, Mettmann, DE;
Horst-Dieter Komp, Langenfeld, DE;
Christiane Boehr, Leverkusen, DE;
Norbert Huebner, Duesseldorf, DE;
Alfred Westfechtel, Hilden, DE;
Cognis Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Duesseldorf, DE;
Abstract
Unsaturated coconut and/or palm nut fatty alcohols having an iodine number in the range from 65 to 85, which essentially comprise unsaturated fatty alcohols and mixtures of saturated fatty alcohols of the formula (I):ROH   (I)in which Ris a saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched alkyl radical having 12 to 20 carbon atoms, obtainable by fractionating coconut and/or palm nut fatty acid methyl esters to obtain a fraction containing predominantly C-Cportions, fractionating the C-Cfatty acid methyl ester fraction into a predominantly saturated distillate and a predominantly unsaturated bottom product, and hydrogenating the bottom product with retention of the double bonds to give the corresponding alcohols; are disclosed.