PATENT

3188. ----- [RUHRCHEMIE, A.G.] [Separating Fatty Acids.] German Patent Appl. R 113,007, no date (Cl. IV d-12 o). Auszüge deut. Patent-Anmeldungen, vol. 6, p. 310.

Branched fatty acids are separated from mixtures of isometric and homologous fatty acids by incomplete saponification so that no decrease worth mentioning occurs in the molecular weight and then extracting the unsaponified fractions.