Site logo

OBTAINING ESTERS OF MANNITOL AND SORBITOL USING STEARIC, PALMITIC AND OLEIC ACIDS

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

CC BY-NC 4.0 This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Abstract

The reaction of sorbitol and mannitol esterification with higher fatty acids has been investigated and the corresponding esters were obtained without using catalysts and solvents. The physical and chemical constants of esters were established. An optimal procedure of the reaction was developed.

Subscribe to TheGufo Newsletter​