Patent 7999030 was granted and assigned to Southern Diversified Products, LLC on August, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An ethylenically unsaturated vegetable oil is modified by the addition of an enophile or dienophile having an acid, ester or anhydride functionality. The modified vegetable oil is then reacted with a polyethylene glycol (PEG) derivative along with a functional vinyl monomer or a polyethylene glycol derivative that contains a vinyl functionality to form a vegetable oil derivative. The vegetable oil derivative is useful in forming latexes and coatings.