Journal of Lipid Research, Vol. 8, 158-160, March 1967
Copyright © 1967 by Lipid Research, Inc.
Application of the Rosenmund reaction to the synthesis of saturated fatty aldehydes
Harold B. White Jr. , Louis L. Sulya , and C. Eugene Cain
Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson, Mississippi 39216
A method is described for the simple and rapid formation of saturated fatty aldehydes from the corresponding acid chlorides. It is not suitable for the preparation of unsaturated aldehydes because of the partial reduction and positional and geometrical isomerization of the double bond in the chain.
Supplementary key words decanaldehyde palmitaldehyde stearaldehyde arachidaldehyde fatty acid chloride Rosenmund reduction
Submitted on October 10, 1966
Accepted on November 29, 1966