Several studies have investigated the feasibility of utilising vegetable oils as feedstock instead of petroleum 7,8. Corn oil was chosen for this study because it contains a high proportion of ...

Epoxidation of high-linolenic perilla oil was carried out in the presence of solid acidic ion-exchange resin at varying reaction temperatures for 8 h. A pseudo two-phase kinetic model that captures ...

Evolution of processes for PO production from propylene. The past chlorohydrin process (1), the current co-oxidation (2), HPPO (3) and CHPPO (4) processes, as well as the future aerobic epoxidation ...

K. Barry Sharpless, Ph.D., W.M. Keck Professor of Chemistry at The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology and the Department of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), has been awarded the ...