P. Froyen et J. Skramstad, A MILD AND EFFICIENT METHOD FOR HYDROHALOGENATION OF UNSATURATED FATTY-ACIDS AND ESTERS, Synthetic communications, 24(13), 1994, pp. 1871-1877
Unsaturated fatty acids and esters are converted in quantitative yield
to a mixture of mono halogenated fatty acids and esters by treatment
with liquid hydrogen chloride or hydrogen bromide.