Przemysl Chemiczny, Vol.91, No.11, 2228-2230, 2012
Esterification of glutaric acid with 2-ethylhexyl alcohol in the presence of sulfuric acid as catalyst and without any catalyst
Glutaric acid was esterified with BuCHEtCH2OH to resp. mono- and diesters in a lab. isothermal semibatch reactor to study the reaction kinetics. In the presence of H2SO4 catalyst, the reaction of monoester formation was 1st order reaction while the reaction of the diester formation was a 2nd order reaction. Lack of catalyst resulted in a change of the reaction order of monoester formation to the 1st order reaction with respect to acid. The parameters of kinetic equations were detd.