Lauryl Myristyl Alcohol
- IUPAC Name
- 1-dodecanol/1-tetradecanol mixture
- Molecular Formula
- C12H26O / C14H30O mixture
- Molecular Weight (g/mol)
- 214.3900
- InChIKey
- HLZKNKRTKFSKGZ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- InChI
- InChI=1S/C14H30O/c1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15/h15H,2-14H2,1H3
- Synonyms & Trade Names
- Lauryl myristyl alcohol; C12-14 fatty alcohol; Lorol C14
Categories
Technical Document
Brief Overview
Lauryl-Myristyl alcohol is also a chemical mixture of lauryl and myristyl alcohol with a chemical formula of C26H54O. The lauryl and myristyl alcohol compound represent C-12 and C-14 respectively. The chemical is a white crystal compound classified as a fatty alcohol with a colorless aqueous solution.
Manufacturing Process
The compound is fabricated by the mixing of lauryl and myristyl alcohols. The mixture is originated from the reduction of fatty methyl esters. The reduction reaction is conducted by adding aluminum lithium hydride as a reducing agent to decompose the ester into 2 alcohol based constituent. Beforehand, the ester originated from palm/vegetable/animal oil is refined, bleached, and deodorized prior to reduction. The product of the reduction is purified via distillation where alcohol with C-12 and C-14 is collected.