LCA is a tool to provide insights on potential environmental and human health impacts and resource use for a product or service's life cycle. The basis for assessment is the function provided by the product or service, described with the functional unit. The life cycle perspective employed is cradle-to-gate, which implies considerations of emissions and resource use from all activities in raw material acquisition and production of a substance, but not it's use, as its unspecified. Environmental impacts caused by the products after the hydrogenation reactions are complete are excluded from the comparison, but further treatment of waste streams as generated in the production process were considered, albeit in a generic modelling approach, e.g. by inclusion of municipal solid waste treatment. The functional unit was set to 1 g of isolated product based on the lab scale on which this work was developed.