Key Laboratory for Green Processing of Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Bingtuan and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832000, China
Abstract:
A new methodology for the synthesis of a green plasticizer acetyltributylcitrate through a transesterification reaction was developed. Under the catalysis of alkyl-substituted imidazol-type N-heterocyclic carbenes, tributyl citrate can react with vinyl acetate smoothly to give ATBC in high yield.