Special functional triglyceride oils

Special Functional Triglyceride Oils as Reactive Oligomers for Simultaneous Interpenetrating Networks... 

Castor oil and other special function group triglyceride oils can be made into low T elastomers. In SIN form with polystyrene, a... 

Linne, M.A. L.H. Sperling AM. Fernandez S. Qureshi J.A. Manson. Simultaneous interpenetrating networks prepared from special functional group triglyceride oils lesquerella palmeri and other wild plant oils. Adv. Chem. Ser. 1984, 37—49. 

Sperling, L.H. J.A. Manson. Interpenetrating polymer networks from triglyceride oils containing special functional groups A brief review. /. Am. Oil Chem. Soc. 1983, 60, 1887-1892. 

Many triglyceride oils such as castor oil, lesquerella oil, and ver-nonia oil have special functionalities on each of their three fatty acid chains in addition to double bonds. For castor and lesquerella, the acid residues have hydroxyl groups, while vernonia oil has oxirane groups. Besides these naturally occurring functionalized oils, linseed, crambe, lunaria, and lesquerella oil have been epoxidized to yield the oxirane functionality wherever a double bond existed. These special functionalities permit the formation of crosslinked polyesters or polyurethanes, which are usually soft elastomers with glass transition temperatures of about -50 C. The castor oil polyester with sebacic acid is especially interesting, since sebacic acid itself is derived commercially from cas-... 

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