Hydrogenating it makes it more useful in this sense, but this creates trans-fats, which have known negative health effects.
"for his method of hydrogenating organic compounds in the presence of finely disintegrated metals whereby the progress of organic chemistry has been greatly advanced in recent years." 1911 ...
The process of synthesizing violaceoid C was quite simple and involved efficiently hydrogenating the double bond in violaceoid A to produce violaceoid C. By refluxing the reaction mixture with ...