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Chemistry and Industry of Forest Products ›› 2017, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (3): 61-66.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-2417.2017.03.008

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Synthesis and Properties of Epoxidized Tung Oil Methyl Ester from Tung Oil Methyl Ester with Quaternary Ammonium Phosphotungstate as Catalyst

ZHENG Minrui1, ZHANG Meng1,2, HU Lihong1,2, BO Caiying1, ZHOU Yonghong1,2   

  1. 1. Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, CAF;National Engineering Lab. for Biomass Chemical Utilization;Key and Open Lab. of Forest Chemical Engineering, SFA;Key Lab. of Biomass Energy and Material, Jiangsu Province, Nanjing 210042, China;
    2. Research Institute of Forestry New Technology, CAF, Beijing 100091, China
  • Received:2016-10-14 Online:2017-06-25 Published:2017-07-03

Abstract: A quaternary ammonium phosphotungstates phase transfer catalyst (C12H25C6H5N)3[PW4O16] was synthesized by using phosphotungstic, hydrogen peroxide(30%) and dodecylpyridinium chloride as feedstock. This phase transfer catalyst was used for the epoxidation of tung oil methyl ester(TOME) and manufacture the epoxidized tung oil methyl ester(ETOME). It was found that the system consist of phase transfer catalyst, TOME and hydrogen peroxide can be regarded as a homogeneous system and the reaction rate was accelerated. Effect of different conditions on the epoxidation reaction of methyl tung oil was investigated. Results showed that the optimum conditions were 50℃ reaction temperature, 3 h reaction time, 1.6:1 molar ratio of hydrogen peroxide to double bond and catalyst dosage was 3.0%. The epoxy value of ETOME can reach 4.9% under these optimum condition. Thermogravimetric analysis showed that the descending order of thermal stability of the products was ETOME > TO > TOME.

Key words: quaternary ammonium phosphotungstates, tung oil methyl ester, epoxidation, phase transfer

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