The fatty aldehydes include compounds such as octanal, nonanal, decanal or dodecanal. Diamond adopted most of his 30 recommendations, including increased Decanal autonomy. Howells remarked that his composition was "the only to be born of a decanal bet". Alumni participation in fundraising doubled during his decanal tenure, and private philanthropy tripled. Decanal, for example, is a component of orange peel. Decanal can be prepared by oxidation of the related alcohol decanol.