摘要:
According to the present invention, it has been found that long-chain alkyl cyclic acetals made from sugars can be obtained by a method that comprises the steps consisting of: - dehydrating a hexitol in a mono-anhydro-hexitol substrate; - reacting the obtained mono-anhydro-hexitol substrate with an alkyl aldehyde reagent containing between 5 and 18 carbon atoms, by means of an acetalisation reaction with a substrate/reagent ratio of between 5:1 and 1:1, or with a derivative of an alkyl aldehyde reagent containing between 5 and 18 carbon atoms, via a trans-acetalisation reaction with a substrate/reagent ratio of between 1:1 and 1:3, in the presence of an acid catalyst and in an environment that is free of solvent or that consists of a non-aqueous polar solvent; - recovering the long-chain alkyl acetal hexitane from the obtained mixture.