Patent ID: 8829151

Claim:
A coating composition comprising an oxidatively drying binder and a reactive diluent, wherein at least a part of the diluent is an ester of a polyunsaturated alcohol and a compound comprising one or more carboxylic acid groups, the ester being without chain-end double bonds; wherein the polyunsaturated alcohol is selected from the group consisting of geraniol, nerol, and farnesol; wherein said compound comprising one or more carboxylic acid groups is a dicarboxylic acid selected from the group consisting of malonic acid, succinic acid, itaconic acid, isophthalic acid, naphthalene dicarboxylic acid, cyclohexane dicarboxylic acid, tetrahydrophthalic acid, anhydrides of tetrahydrophthalic acid, and polyesters having two terminal groups with unreacted carboxylic acid moieties; and wherein the polyester further comprises one or more cyclo-alkyl building blocks.