High-purity ethylene carbonate(EC)is widely used as battery electrolyte,polycarbonate monomer,organic intermediate,and so on.An economical and sustainable route to synthesize high-purity ethylene carbonate(EC)via the ...High-purity ethylene carbonate(EC)is widely used as battery electrolyte,polycarbonate monomer,organic intermediate,and so on.An economical and sustainable route to synthesize high-purity ethylene carbonate(EC)via the transesterification of dimethyl carbonate(DMC)with ethylene glycol(EG)is provided in this work.However,this reaction is so fast that the reaction kinetics,which is essential for the industrial design,is hard to get by the traditional measuring method.In this work,an easy-to-assemble microreactor was used to precisely determine the reaction kinetics for the fast transesterification of DMC with EG using sodium methoxide as catalyst.The effects of flow rate,microreactor diameter,catalyst concentration,reaction temperature,and reactant molar ratio were investigated.An activity-based pseudohomogeneous kinetic model,which considered the non-ideal properties of reaction system,was established to describe the transesterification of DMC with EG.Detailed kinetics data were collected in the first 5 min.Using these data,the parameters of the kinetic model were correlated with the maximum average error of 11.19%.Using this kinetic model,the kinetic data at different catalyst concentrations and reactant molar ratios were predicted with the maximum average error of 13.68%,suggesting its satisfactory prediction performance.展开更多
Tonalid,an important fragrance ingredient with widespread applicatio n,was synthesized via two FriedelCrafts reactions,which were catalyzed by AlCl_(3).The traditional tonalid production was conducted in batch stirrin...Tonalid,an important fragrance ingredient with widespread applicatio n,was synthesized via two FriedelCrafts reactions,which were catalyzed by AlCl_(3).The traditional tonalid production was conducted in batch stirring tank reactors,suffering from low production capacity and the safety hazard of temperature runaway.To solve these problems,the continuous-flow technologies were developed for the highefficiency and intrinsically safe synthesis of tonalid in microreactors.Catalyst AlCl_(3)was neatly homogenized in proper solvents by forming complex with reactant,which was a necessary step for the continuous synthesis in microreactors.Several reaction conditions,including reactant molar ratio,catalyst concentration,temperature,and microchannel hydrodynamic diameter,were investigated for the two Friedel-Crafts reactions in micro reactors.At optimized conditions,the yields of the two Friedel-Crafts reactions were 44.15%and 97.55%,respectively.In comparison with the batch reactors,the reaction times of these two reactions could both be reduced by nearly two thirds in microreactors at the similar yield.展开更多
基金support for this work from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21706034)the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province(2021J01645)the Key Program of Qingyuan Innovation Laboratory(00221004).
文摘High-purity ethylene carbonate(EC)is widely used as battery electrolyte,polycarbonate monomer,organic intermediate,and so on.An economical and sustainable route to synthesize high-purity ethylene carbonate(EC)via the transesterification of dimethyl carbonate(DMC)with ethylene glycol(EG)is provided in this work.However,this reaction is so fast that the reaction kinetics,which is essential for the industrial design,is hard to get by the traditional measuring method.In this work,an easy-to-assemble microreactor was used to precisely determine the reaction kinetics for the fast transesterification of DMC with EG using sodium methoxide as catalyst.The effects of flow rate,microreactor diameter,catalyst concentration,reaction temperature,and reactant molar ratio were investigated.An activity-based pseudohomogeneous kinetic model,which considered the non-ideal properties of reaction system,was established to describe the transesterification of DMC with EG.Detailed kinetics data were collected in the first 5 min.Using these data,the parameters of the kinetic model were correlated with the maximum average error of 11.19%.Using this kinetic model,the kinetic data at different catalyst concentrations and reactant molar ratios were predicted with the maximum average error of 13.68%,suggesting its satisfactory prediction performance.
基金financial support for this work from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21706034)the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province(No.2021J01645)the Key Program of Qingyuan Innovation Laboratory(No.00221004)。
文摘Tonalid,an important fragrance ingredient with widespread applicatio n,was synthesized via two FriedelCrafts reactions,which were catalyzed by AlCl_(3).The traditional tonalid production was conducted in batch stirring tank reactors,suffering from low production capacity and the safety hazard of temperature runaway.To solve these problems,the continuous-flow technologies were developed for the highefficiency and intrinsically safe synthesis of tonalid in microreactors.Catalyst AlCl_(3)was neatly homogenized in proper solvents by forming complex with reactant,which was a necessary step for the continuous synthesis in microreactors.Several reaction conditions,including reactant molar ratio,catalyst concentration,temperature,and microchannel hydrodynamic diameter,were investigated for the two Friedel-Crafts reactions in micro reactors.At optimized conditions,the yields of the two Friedel-Crafts reactions were 44.15%and 97.55%,respectively.In comparison with the batch reactors,the reaction times of these two reactions could both be reduced by nearly two thirds in microreactors at the similar yield.
