Fatty Alcohols from Marine Oils and Segregated Esters

Abstract

Fatty alcohols were prepared by lithium aluminium hydride reduction of the three main methyl ester fractions obtained by countercurrent extraction of methyl esters from herring oil.Alcohols were also prepared by the same method from commercially important Canadian marine oils, e.g. cod oil, cod liver oil, seal oil, herring oil and dogfish liver oil, and their properties tabulated.A comparison was made between the sodium reduction method and the lithium aluminium hydride method in the reduction of methyl esters from herring oil and their effect on producing conjugation of the ethylenic double bonds.