“…Since, in alkyd paint drying, most of the chemistry takes place at the unsaturated fatty acid tails of the binder compound, the entire binder resin can be modeled by using compounds that structurally or chemically resemble this fatty acid chain. Dienes such as 4,7-heptadiene, 9 3,6-nonadiene, 10 and 2,5-undecadiene, 11 as well as methyl and ethyl esters of the unsaturated fatty acids linoleic, linolenic, and ricinoleic acid, [12][13][14][15] have been used as model compounds for alkyd resin precursors. An advantage of this approach, besides having a much simpler system to study, is that when model compound mixtures become 'dried', they remain liquid and consequently are more easily studied using standard analytical techniques.…”