Abstract:
A process for producing fatty acids or fatty acid derivatives from oleaginous plants. This process is characterized in that transgenic oleaginous plants are produced having on the one hand at least one gene coding for a lipase enzyme, the so-called lipase gene, and on the other hand, associated with this lipase gene, a promoter permitting an expression of the gene either in compartments different from the lipid accumulation compartments, or by exogenous induction. The seeds or fruits containing the plant lipids are collected, the seeds or fruits are crushed, if necessary after induction treatment, so as to bring the lipids and lipase into contact, the whole mixture is incubated in order to effect an enzymatic hydrolysis of the lipids, and the fatty acids or derivatives thereof are extracted.
Abstract:
A process for making carbohydrate partial esters having a degree of esterification of from 1 to 6 involving the steps of: (a) providing a catalytically active mixture containing: (i) an alkali metal carbonate; and (ii) a fatty acid lower alkyl ester; (b) providing an emulsifier mixture containing: (iii) a glycose component having from 5 to 12 carbon atoms; and (iv) a carbohydrate partial ester; and (c) combining the catalytically active mixture with the emulsifier mixture, with vigorous stirring, to form an emulsion/dispersion containing particles having a mean diameter of from 10 to 60 &mgr;m.
Abstract:
The invention concerns an organic composition comprising glycerol polycarbonates, mixed with polyglycerols, [(a-hydroxymethyl)oxyethylene/(a-hydroxymethyl ethylene carbonate) copolymers; optionally [(a-alkyl)oxyethylene/(a-alkyl) ethylene carbonate] copolymers, optionally [(a-alkyl)oxyethylene/(a-hydroxyalkyl)oxyethylene] copolymers, glycerol carbonate and/or other organic carbonates, glycerol and/or other co-produced and/or residual compounds and a method for producing said composition. The inventive composition or the homopolymers and copolymers constituting same, are applicable in the technical fields of hydraulic fluids, lubrication, wood treatment and decoration, fire-retardant treatment, detergency, oil prospecting and production, water treatment, cosmetics, pharmaceutics, food industry and chemical intermediates.
Abstract:
The invention relates to polyesters containing at least one partly acylated polyhydroxylated compound belonging the group consisting of glycerol polycarbonates, specific polyglycerols, [(a-hydroxymethyl) oxyethylene/(a-hydroxymethyl)ethylene carbonate] copolymers, [a -hydroxymethyl) oxyethylene/(a-hydroxymethyl)ethylene carbonate] copolymers, and [a -alkyl) oxyethylene/(a-hydroxyalkyl) oxyethylene] copolymers. The invention also relates to methods for acylating, at least partly, the polyhydroxylated compounds. The polyesters of this invention are applicable to the technical fields relating to engine and industrial lubricants, greases, hydraulic fluids, metal deformation and processing lubricants, stripping and mold dressing products, oil prospecting, mines, tunnel borers, cosmetics, detergency, inks, textile coatings and papers, to the field of food products, to the protection of wood as synthesis intermediates.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a method for preparing glycerol carbonate. This method consists of making urea and glycerol react at a temperature substantially between 90.degree. C. and 220.degree. C. in the presence of a catalyst bearing Lewis acid sites, in particular metallic or organometallic salts or supported metallic compounds. The invention enables glycerol carbonate to be obtained, by a catalytic carbamoylation/carbonation reaction, in a highly pure state under economic conditions.
Abstract:
A method of oxidative molecular cleavage of a fatty compound, includes:—forming a liquid composition, referred to as a fatty composition, consisting of at least one aliphatic carboxylic acid, the fatty composition including the fatty compound; characterized in that it then involves:—adding, to the fatty composition, a solution of at least one quaternary ammonium salt in water capable of forming an emulsion from the fatty compound and water, then;—adding, to the emulsion, a liquid solution of at least one tungstophosphoric acid in a composition including hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), in such a way as to form, in situ in the emulsion, a quantity of a phase-transfer catalyst, formed from tungstophosphoric acid and at least one quaternary ammonium from the quaternary ammonium salt(s), and to allow the oxidative molecular cleavage of the fatty compound.
Abstract translation:脂肪化合物的氧化分子切割的方法包括:形成由至少一种脂肪族羧酸,包含脂肪族化合物的脂肪组合物构成的称为脂肪组合物的液体组合物; 其特征在于,其包括:向脂肪组合物中加入能够从脂肪化合物和水形成乳液的至少一种季铵盐在水中的溶液,然后向乳液中加入液体溶液 的至少一种钨磷酸在包含过氧化氢(H 2 O 2)的组合物中,以在乳液中原位形成一定量的由钨磷酸形成的相转移催化剂和至少一种季铵盐 季铵盐,并允许脂肪化合物的氧化分子裂解。
Abstract:
The invention concerns polyesters of at least one of polyhydroxylated compounds at least partly acylated, belonging the group consisting of polyhydroxylated compounds constituted by glycerol polycarbonates, specific polyglycerols, [(a-hydroxymethyl) oxyethylene/(a-hydroxymethyl) ethylene carbonate] copolymers, [(a-hydroxymethyl) oxyethylene/(a-hydroxymethyl) ethylene carbonate] copolymers, [(a-alkyl) oxyethylene/(a-hydroxyalkyl) oxyethylene] copolymers. The invention also concerns a method for acylating at least partly one of said polyhydroxylated compounds. The invention is applicable to the technical fields relating to engine and industrial lubricants, greases, hydraulic fluids, metal deformation and processing lubricants, stripping and mold dressing products, oil prospecting, mines, tunnel borers, cosmetics, detergency, inks, textile coatings and papers, to the field of food products, to the protection of wood as synthesis intermediates.