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Highly Functional Polyol Synthesis from Epoxidized Tall Oil Fatty Acids

Edgars Vanags*, Mikelis Kirpluks, Ugis Cabulis and Zuzana Walterova

Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, Dzerbenes 27, LV-1006, Riga, Latvia

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Journal of Renewable Materials 2018, 6(7), 764-771. https://doi.org/10.7569/JRM.2018.634111

Abstract

In this work, free tall oil fatty acids were epoxidized with in-situ generated peroxyacetic acid. Reaction kinetics of epoxidation was investigated by oxirane content and iodine value titrimetric determination, as well as FTIR spectra analysis. A highly functional biobased polyol was synthesized by functionalizing epoxidized tall oil fatty acids with triethanolamine using Montmorillonite K10 as a catalyst. The obtained polyol was analyzed by FTIR and MALDI-TOF MS. The most common chemical and physical characteristics of obtained polyol were determined.

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