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Continuous dehydrochlorination of 1,3-dichloropropan-2-ol to epichlorohydrin: process parameters and by-products formation

Anna Krzyżanowska and Eugeniusz Milchert

Institute of Organic Chemical Technology, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Pułaski 10 Street, 70-322, Szczecin, Poland

E-mail: akrzyzanowska@zut.edu.pl

Abstract: The influence of pre-reactor and reactor temperatures on the conversion of 1,3-dichloropropan-2-ol and the selectivity of its transformation to epichlorohydrin in continuous dehydrochlorination for two modes of the reaction product collection was studied. The dehydrochlorination process and mechanism of diglycidyl ether formation are described.

Keywords: dehydrochlorination – 1,3-dichloropropan-2-ol – epichlorohydrin – diglycidyl ether

Full paper is available at www.springerlink.com.

DOI: 10.2478/s11696-012-0300-x

Chemical Papers 67 (9) 1218–1224 (2013)