n 2 hydroxyethyl carbamate ethyl n 2 hydroxyethyl carbamate and diethanolamine the reaction mechanism is schematically shown in reaction 1 any vegetable oil can be used in the present invention however linseed oil soybean oil and coconut oil are preferred various compounds can be used to modify the fatty amide examples include but are not limited to meth acryloyl chloride and meth acrylic acid in another preferred embodiment urethane fatty amide monomers are synthesized first hydroxyethyl meth acrylate is reacted with isophorone diisocyanate in a preferred embodiment the hydroxyl meth acrylate is reacted in equimolar proportion with isophorone diisocyanate in a separate reaction a vegetable oil for example soybean oil coconut oil or linseed oil is reacted with ethanolamine or substituted ethanolamine to form the hydroxyl functional fatty amide the products of the two reactions were reacted to form the urethane fatty amide meth acrylate monomer schematically shown in reaction 2 the macromonomers of the present invention can be used to make latexes and coatings compositions the monomers described in this patent application can be polymerized in a single or multi stage emulsion polymerization process to include macroemulsion miniemulsion microemulsion and processing can be batch semi batch or continuous although it is possible to use this monomer in a staged emulsion polymerization as disclosed in published u s application 2003 0045609 the teachings.