Acetone → Squalane

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Ethynylation of 194 g of citronelliodene acetone was carried out with acetylene in the same manner as in example 20 except that citronellidene acetone was used in place of pseudoionone and 278 g of a crude product was thus obtained. This product was subjected to oxydative-coupling, hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis in sequence in the same manner as in example 20 and squalane was thus obtained in a yield of 36.3 % from citronellidene acetone to squalane.

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