Method for making esters

US4418204A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rohm Co., Ltd. · JP

Inventors

• Peter J. Arndt · Seeheim-Jugenheim, DE
• Joachim Lowitz · Alsbach, DE
• Manfred Muller · Berlin, DE
• Fritz Schlosser · Darmstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 23, 1982
• Grant date: Nov 29, 1983
• Expiry date: Sep 23, 2002

Classification

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

Abstract

What is disclosed is a method for the transesterification of lower alkyl esters of .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated acids such as acrylic and methacrylic acid, with an epoxy alcohol, such as glycidol, which uses 1,4-diazabicyclo(2,2,2)octane as a transesterification catalyst.