A method for the production of an esterified product is provided which affords an esterified product with high quality by repressing, during the esterification reaction of an alcohol with (meth)acrylic acid, the occurrence of impurities, particularly gel, to be formed owing to the polymerization of the alcohol and the (meth)acrylic acid as raw materials, the esterified product consequently formed, or the mixture thereof. Specifically, a method for the production of an esterified product of this invention comprises esterifying an alcohol represented by the following formula (1):
R1O(R2O)nH (1)
wherein R1 represents a hydrocarbon group of 1 to 30 carbon atoms, R2O represents an oxyalkylene group of 2 to 18 carbon atoms, providing that the repeating units, R2O, may be the same or different and that when the R2O's are in the form of a mixture of two or more species, the repeating units, R2O, may be added either in a block form or in a random form, and n represents an average addition mol number of oxyalkylene groups and is in the range of 0 to 300, with (meth)acrylic acid in a dehydrating solvent in the presence of an acid catalyst and a polymerization inhibitor, wherein a reaction temperature during the esterification reaction is not higher than 130 °C and a circulation speed of the solvent during the esterification reaction is not less than 0.5 cycle/hour.
本发明提供了一种酯化产品的生产方法,该方法在醇和(甲基)
丙烯酸的酯化反应过程中,抑制由于作为原料的醇和(甲基)
丙烯酸的聚合反应而形成的杂质(特别是凝胶)的出现,从而提供高质量的酯化产品、由此形成的酯化产品或其混合物。具体来说,生产本发明酯化产品的方法包括将下式(1)所代表的醇酯化:
R1O(R2O)nH (1)
其中 R1 代表 1 至 30 个碳原子的烃基,R2O 代表 2 至 18 个碳原子的氧亚烷基,但重复单元 R2O 可以相同或不同,当 R2O 以两种或两种以上混合物的形式存在时,重复单元 R2O 可以块状或无规形式加入、和 n 代表氧亚烷基的平均添加摩尔数,其范围在 0 至 300 之间,在酸催化剂和聚合
抑制剂存在下,在脱
水溶剂中用(甲基)
丙烯酸进行酯化反应,其中酯化反应期间的反应温度不高于 130℃,酯化反应期间溶剂的循环速度不低于 0.5 周期/小时。