Chemistry of conjugated lipids

合成有机化学产生了改变植物油性质的途径，其中许多是众所周知的，但很少有工艺可以便宜到足以应用于工业实践。因此，有必要将这些过程付诸实践，以生产各种各样的增值消费品和工业产品。该提案的方法是开发更有效的工业工艺，将植物油转化为改进的消费品和工业产品。用于新合成的植物油将衍生自具有独特化学性质和/或低成本的加拿大作物，包括卡诺拉、亚麻、高油酸卡诺拉、索林亚麻、芫荽、亚麻荠和油菜籽。

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.