Determination of oxirane content of derivatives of fats

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Abstract
Although oxirane functions react readily with a large variety of chemical reagents, no single analytical method has been universally successful in measuring the oxirane content of all epoxides. This failure is ascribable to the manner in which the chemical reactivity of the three membered cyclic ethers is modified by molecular structure and by the presence of nearby substituents.A survey of the various types of published analytical methods is given, but major emphasis is placed upon a discussion of procedures applicable to the analysis of epoxy derivatives of fats. Most of these latter methods depend upon the addition of some reagent, HX, to the epoxide ring with simultaneous cleavage of a carbon‐oxygen bond.

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