Acetal-type saccharide-based surfactants

E. Cyclic Acetal-Type Saccharide-Based Surfactants... 

It is worth mentioning that cyclic acetal-type saccharide-based surfactants are promising not only with respect to their environmental properties but also as concerns their synthesis. Recently, the Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation elaborated and commercialized a process of direct hydrogenation of aliphatic carboxylic acids to the corresponding aldehydes [181,182]. This process allows long-chain aliphatic aldehydes to be obtained from natural fats and oils, and, as a consequence, to produce cyclic acetal-type saccharide surfactants entirely from renewable feedstock. 

The main subject of this chapter is saccharide-based surfactants containing the amide group. Saccharide surfactants with an oxygen atom as a link between the sugar moiety and the hydrophobic group are the topic of the above-mentioned chapters in this book, and, other than cyclic acetal-type sugar surfactants, will not be described here. 

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