Origin of Individual Fats and Oils

Synthesis and Manufacture of Amines. The chemical and business segments of amines and quaternaries are closely linked. The majority of commercially produced amines originate from three amine raw materials natural fats and oils, a-olefins, and fatty alcohols, The amines are then used to produce a wide array of commercially available quaternary ammonium compounds. Some individual quaternary ammonium compounds can be produced by more than one synthetic route. See also Amines. 

As commercially made by the saponification of fats, soaps are not pure chemical individuals but consist of a mixture of the alkali-metal salts of the several fatty acids contained as esters in the original fat or oil. The composition of soap, therefore, depends upon the composition of the fat from which it is made. As the common fats and oils which are used for this purpose contain, mostly the glycerol esters of palmitic, stearic and oleic acids, the common soaps are mixtures of sodium, or potassium, palmitate, stearate and oleate. We shall consider now,... 

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