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US 9,878,973 B2Granted
Catalytic processes for preparing estolide base oils
AssigneeBiosynthetic Technologies, LLC
InventorsJakob Bredsguard, Jeremy Forest, Travis Thompson
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Abstract
Provided herein are processes for preparing estolides and estolide base oils from fatty acid reactants utilizing catalysts. Further provided herein are processes for preparing carboxylic esters from at least one carboxylic acid reactant and at least one olefin.
Claims10
A process comprising:
- providing a composition comprising one or more fatty acid reactants;
- and
- exposing the composition to a homogenous catalyst and a solid-supported catalyst to provide an ester product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.