By-Product of the Wood Pulp Industry - Tall Oil - Utilisation for Acrylate Synthesis

Green Gold - Forests for the Future: 19th International Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries 2023
Ralfs Pomilovskis, Inese Mieriņa, Elīza Kauliņa, Anda Fridrihsone, Miķelis Kirpļuks

To change the existing economic climate into a greener economy, it is essential to adapt the processing of forest bio-resources into biochemicals. Distilled tall oil, a byproduct of the Kraft process, mainly contains oleic and linoleic acid making it attractive for the synthesis of a variety of high-added value bio-based substances. Recently, much attention has been paid to the synthesis of multifunctional bio-based acrylates for polymer production. We report an approach for synthesising acrylates from tall oil using epoxidation, oxirane ring-opening with a polyfunctional polyol, and following hydroxyl group acrylation with acryloyl chloride. Intermediates and products were analyzed using NMR and MALDI-TOF

Keywords
Michael donor; Michael acceptor; tall oil

Pomilovskis, R., Mieriņa, I., Kauliņa, E., Fridrihsone, A., Kirpļuks, M. By-Product of the Wood Pulp Industry - Tall Oil - Utilisation for Acrylate Synthesis. In: Green Gold - Forests for the Future: 19th International Conference on Renewable Resources and Biorefineries, Latvia, Riga, 31 May-2 Jun., 2023. Riga: Riga Technical University, 2023, pp.76-76.

Publication language
English (en)