Water → Oleic Acid

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Four hundred grams of oleic acid (SO-90L, produced by Kao Corporation), 16 g of activated clay (CS-1, mean inter-layer distance of 4 Å, produced by Mizusawa Kagaku) and 8 g of water were placed in an autoclave. After the inside atmosphere of the autoclave was replaced with nitrogen, the mixture was stirred. The inside of the autoclave was heated to 240° C. and kept in a steam atmosphere of 14 kgf/cm2 for 6 hours. After cooling, the reaction mixture obtained was taken out from the autoclave, and the semisynthetic clay was filtered off. The filtrate was distilled under a reduced pressure to yield 167.6 g of monomeric acids.

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