Date of Award

6-1945

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Chemistry

First Advisor

Herbert Heinrich

Second Advisor

M.S. Barnett

Abstract

The search for new organic compounds, the discovery of their proper­ ties and the utilization of them, both in the industrial and the biological field has always been the challenge to the organic and research chemist. In particular, the study of fatty acids and their related compounds has been the particular problem to not only the physiological chemist, but also the industrial chemist. The research in this direction has tremen­dous possibilities tor only the even carbon and normal chain acids have been isolated in nature. Here difficulty is often met when trying to establish and identify this type of acid in nature. Greater is the pro­blem when apparently new acids are discovered which seem to be neither normal chain or even numbered. It remains then for the research chemist of today to synthesize the odd-numbered and branched chain fatty acids, thereby helping the verification of these acids when and if they are found in nature. The possibility that these acids will have properties new and different from the ones known is not far-fetched.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science

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