10.1. Dicarboxylic Acids
Adipic acid is the most important commercial dicarboxylic acid. The second most important dicarboxylic acid is 1,12-dodecane- dioic acid, which can be readily manufactured from cyclo- dodecane via the cyclododecanone/ol mixture. Suberic acid from the oxidation of cyclooctane could well become in- creasingly important due to the convenient manufacture of its precursor from cyclooctadiene, the cyclodimer of butadiene. Up to now, however, it has only been used to a limited extent for the manufacture of nylon 6,8.