This versatile method simplifies the production of valuable alkenes from abundant feedstock chemicals including carboxylic ...

Published in Green Chemistry, researchers from King’s College London and the Brazilian Biorenewables National Laboratory used enzymes to break down fatty acids in cooking oil into alkenes ...

It can convert fatty acids to 1-alkenes at the fastest rate currently possible. But the team found that the process was not very efficient—the enzyme would become inactivated after just a few ...