ch. 1. Novel long-chain compounds produced through neighboring group participation / F.D. Gunstone -- ch. 2. Synthesis of special fatty acids : a review / Marcel S.F. Lie Ken Jie and Sunny W.H. Cheung -- ch. 3. Derivatives of new crop oils / Terry A. Isbell -- ch. 4. Palladium (0)-catalyzed reactions of nucleophiles with allyl carbonates of unsaturated fatty acids / Hans J. Schf̃er and Michael Zobel -- ch. 5. Synthesis of new oleochemicals : products of Friedel-Crafts reactions of unsaturated fatty compounds / Ursula Biermann and J¿rgen O. Metzger -- ch. 6. Synthesis of new oleochemicals : functionalization of fatty compounds using radical reactions / J¿rgen O. Metzger ... [et al.] -- ch. 7. Organic chemical synthesis and derivatization of fatty acids and methyl esters obtained from ricinus and dimorphotheca species. Some industrially feasible preparations of new fatty acid-based products / Piet. M.P. Bogaert ... [et al.] --

ch. 8. Synthesis of epoxidized novel fatty acids for use in paint applications / G.J.H. Buisman, A. Overeem, and F.P. Cuperus -- ch. 9. Synthesis of new derivatives from vegetable oil methyl esters via epoxidation and oxirane opening / Xavier Pags̈-Xatart-Pars̈, Carine Bonnet, and Odile Morin -- ch. 10. New oxidation methods for unsaturated fatty acids, esters, and triglycerides / Mark R¿sch gen. Klaas and Siegfried Warwel -- ch. 11. Some recent advances in epoxide synthesis / George J. Piazza -- ch. 12. Cyclic fatty acids in heated vegetable oils : structures and mechanisms / Gary Dobson -- ch. 13. Production of hydroxy fatty acids by biocatalysis / Ching T. Hou, Tsung M. Kuo, and Alan C. Lanser -- ch. 14. Some derivatives of fatty compounds for mass spectral structure determination / Gerhard Knothe and William W. Christie.