“…Distillation in high vacuum was employed very early for the purpose of separating partially the glycerides of laurel kernel fat and nutmeg butter (189). Krafft (188,(190)(191)(192) and others (29,30,32,45) used this procedure extensively to obtain glycerides of low molecular weight, e.g., trilaurin, trimyristin, lauromyristins, etc. The inability to distill glycerides of higher molecular weight limited the use of this procedure until recently, when interest was aroused in molecular distillations (44,62,63,77,95,180,227,272).…”