Synthesis of Polyformate Esters of Vegetable Oils: Milkweed, Pennycress, and Soy

Figure 6

(a) Schematic of formation of polyformyl ester of milkweed oil from the oxirane; (b) proposed mechanism of the vicinal diformyl ester formation from the oxirane.

(a) Formation of milkweed polyformyl esters

(b) Proposed mechanism of the vicinal diformate ester formation from the oxirane