Chemistry of conjugated lipids

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Synthetic organic chemistry yields routes to change the properties of plant oils and many are well known but few of the processes can be made inexpensive enough to be applied to industrial practice. It is necessary, therefore, to reduce these processes to practice in order to produce the wide variety of value-added consumer and industrial products. The approach of this proposal is to develop more 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 with unique chemistry and/or low cost including canola, flax, high-oleic canola, solin flax, coriander, camelina and rapeseed.