Fatty Acids : Chemistry, Synthesis, and Applications / edited by Moghis U. Ahmad

Includes bibliographical references and index

History of fatty acids chemistry / Gary R. List, James A. Kenar and Bryan R. Moser -- Naturally occuring fatty acids / James A. Kenar, Bryan R. Moser and Gary R. List -- Epoxy fatty acids / Arnis Kuksis and Waldemar Pruzanski -- Acetylenic epoxy fatty acids / Valery M. Dembitsky and Dmitry V. Kuklev -- Carbocyclic fatty acids / Moghis U. Ahmad, Shoukath M. Ali, Ateeq Ahmad, Saifuddin Sheikh and Imran Ahmad -- Modification of oil crops to produce fatty acids for industrial applications / John L. Harwood, Helen K. Woodfield, Guanqun Chen and Randall J. Weselake -- Microbialproduction of fatty acids / Colin Ratledge and Casey Lippmeier -- Chemical derivitazion of castor oil and their industrial utilization / Rachapudi B.N. Prasad and Bhamidipati V.S.K. Rao -- Chemical modification of high free fatty acid oils for biodeisel production / Godlisten G. Kombe -- Synthesis of sugar fatty acid esters and their industrial utilizations / Bianca Pérez, Sampson Anankanbil and Zheng Guo -- Fatty acids-based surfactants and their uses / Douglas G. Hayes -- The role of fatty acids in cosmetic technology / Gary R. Kelm and Randall R. Wickett -- Chemistry of long-chain ,ß-unsaturated fatty acid and reactions thereof / Abdul Rauf and Mohammad F. Hassan -- Estolides / Steven C. Cermak, Terry A. Isbell, Jakob W. Bredsguard and Travis D. Thompson -- An efficient, multigram synthesis of dietary cis- and trans-octadecenoic (18:1) fatty acids / Moghis U. Ahmad -- Advancement in chromatographic and spectroscopic analyses of dietary fatty acids / Magdi M. Mossaba, Sanjeewa R. Karunathilaka, Jin K. Jung and Cynthia T. Srigley -- Mass spectrometry in the analysis of fatty acids and derivatives / Yu Lin, Ming Guan, Lin Li, Yangyang Zhang and Zhenwen Zhao -- Crystallization of fats and fatty acids in edible oils and structure determination / Michael A. Rogers