| abstract |
The invention relates to branched, largely unsaturated fatty alcohols that a re obtained by (a) dimerizing unsaturated fatty acids with 16 to 22 carbon atom s in a known-manner, (b) separating the monomer fraction obtained during the dimerization, (c) converting the branched, largely unsaturated fatty acids that are contained in this fraction into the corresponding fatty acid methyl esters and (d) hydrogenating the branched, largely unsaturated fatty acid methyl esters in such a way as to obtain the double bonds. |