Parallel syntheis reactor

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Synthetic organic chemistry yields routes to change the properties of plant oils and many are well known. Unfortunately, few of the processes are sufficiently economically feasible for use by industry. It is necessary therefore, to reduce these processes to practice in order to produce a wide variety of value-added consumer and industrial products. The equipment defined in this proposal is designed to screen for efficient industrial processes for converting vegetable oils to improved consumer and industrial products. The vegetable oils used in novel syntheses will be derived from Canadian crops having a unique chemistry and/or low cost ,including; canola, flax, high-oleic canola, solin flax, coriander, camelina and rapeseed. The equipment provides the ability to engage in parallel synthetic approaches which can greatly accelerate development of useful reactions to produce new products.   Modified oils will be synthesized through a series of reactions under well controlled conditions. Processes will be developed to inexpensively convert vegetable oils to products that: 1) remain liquid at low temperature (-40C); 2) have low viscosity (<4 cP); 3) have high viscosity (>200 cP); 4) have high polarity; 5) have low polarity; 6) have enhanced oxidative stability (>10 h AOM) 7) are more readily polymerized.   Patented methods and trade secrets have been developed by the applicant to prepare alkyl esters and conjugate fatty acids for industrial applications. The equipment will be used in training M.Sc. and Ph.D. candidates, as well as technicians and Postdoctoral Fellows, to conduct oil modification chemistry and to explore a wide range of reactions to modify the relevant properties of the lipids.