Process for the production of glycidyl methacrylate

US4228084A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Deutsche Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt Vormals Roessler

Inventors

• Rolf Ackermann · Hanau, DE
• Heinz Kolb
• Gerhard Morlock · Hanau, DE
• Gerd Schreyer

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 3, 1976
• Grant date: Oct 14, 1980
• Expiry date: Jun 3, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07D303/16
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Glycidyl methacrylate is produced by transesterifying methyl methacrylate with glycidol in the presence of a polymerization inhibitor and a transesterification catalyst in which the catalyst is a salt of formula MeX where Me is an alkali metal ion and X is a cyanide, cyanate or thiocyanate ion.