Method for synthesizing o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of organic synthesis, in particular to a method for synthesizing o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate.
Background
Currently, optical film materials are attracting attention of a large number of researchers due to their excellent light transmittance, refractive index, chemical resistance and optical corrosion properties, and optical films are a type of optical medium materials that transmit light beams through interfaces, and are widely used in technical fields such as optics and optoelectronics, and commonly used types include brightness enhancement films, diffusion films, and the like. Raw materials of the optical film include acrylic esters, and domestic common photo-curing acrylic esters include trimethylolpropane triacrylate (TMPTA), tripropylene glycol diacrylate (TPGDA), dipropylene glycol diacrylate (DPGDA), neopentyl glycol diacrylate (NPGDA), and l, 6-hexanediol diacrylate (HDDA).
Ortho-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate is a representative compound of acrylate polymers or copolymers containing an aromatic ring structure, which has excellent transparency and high refractive index, and is widely used in the industries of optical materials such as optical resins (diluents for optical resin UV adhesives, high refractive index optical film resin components, diluents, and the like), optical coatings, optical adhesives, optical lenses, and eyeglass manufacturing.
The industrial preparation method of the o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate generally adopts an esterification method, namely a method for removing water generated in the esterification reaction process by utilizing an aromatic solvent such as benzene, toluene, xylene and the like in the presence of an acid catalyst and a polymerization inhibitor. In the past, inorganic acid such as concentrated sulfuric acid, concentrated phosphoric acid and the like is generally used as a catalyst, but the concentrated sulfuric acid has high corrosiveness to equipment and high oxidizing property, and the final product is quite dark in color and even brownish black. At present, organic acids such as p-toluenesulfonic acid, methanesulfonic acid and the like, solid acids or catalysts such as strong acid ion exchange resins and the like are adopted, but products with very low chromaticity are difficult to obtain, and the yield and purity of the products are also not ideal, so that the improvement of the yield, purity and chromaticity of the o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate is a technical problem which needs to be solved by a person skilled in the art.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides a method for synthesizing o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate, which solves the problems of low yield and purity and poor chromaticity of the o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate in the related technology.
The technical scheme of the invention is as follows:
a method for synthesizing o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate, comprising the steps of:
s1, mixing and stirring o-phenylphenol, a first catalyst and a first solvent until the o-phenylphenol, the first catalyst and the first solvent are dissolved, introducing ethylene oxide for reaction, and performing reduced pressure distillation after the reaction is finished to obtain o-phenylphenoxyethanol;
s2, mixing and stirring the o-phenylphenoxyethanol, a polymerization inhibitor, an antioxidant, a second catalyst and a second solvent, heating, adding acrylic acid, heating to reflux, filtering after the reaction is finished, and collecting filtrate;
s3, washing the filtrate to be neutral, and adding a polymerization inhibitor again to perform reduced pressure distillation to obtain the o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate.
As a further technical scheme, the mass ratio of the o-phenylphenol in the S1 to the first catalyst is 1 (0.01-0.2).
As a further technical scheme, the first catalyst comprises one or more of sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, potassium hydroxide, potassium carbonate and potassium bicarbonate.
As a further technical scheme, the mass ratio of the o-phenylphenol in the S1 to the first solvent is 1 (0.3-2).
As a further technical scheme, the first solvent comprises one or more of ethylene glycol dimethyl ether, methanol and ethanol.
As a further technical scheme, the flow rate of ethylene oxide introduced into the S1 is 0.1mL/min.
As a further technical scheme, the molar ratio of the o-phenylphenol to the ethylene oxide in the S1 is 1 (0.95-1.7).
As a further technical scheme, the temperature is 80-160 ℃, the pressure is 0.3-1.5 MPa, and the time is 0.1-2 h during the reaction in the S1.
As a further technical scheme, the S1 reaction device is a continuous micro-reaction pipeline device, and is preferably a continuous reactor of a mixing micro-reaction channel of HY19-052-1A and HY19-052-2A of corning.
As a further technical scheme, the mass of the polymerization inhibitor in the S2 is (0.01-0.1)% of the mass of the o-phenylphenoxyethanol.
As a further technical scheme, the polymerization inhibitor comprises one or more of p-methoxyphenol, hydroquinone, cupric chloride, cupric sulfate and 2, 6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol.
As a further technical scheme, the mass of the antioxidant in the S2 is (0.1-1)% of the mass of the o-phenylphenoxyethanol.
As a further technical scheme, the antioxidant comprises one or two of hypophosphorous acid and sodium hypophosphite.
As a further technical scheme, the mass ratio of the o-phenylphenoxyethanol to the second catalyst in the S2 is 1 (0.02-0.1).
As a further technical scheme, the second catalyst comprises a solid acid and an oxide.
As a further technical scheme, the mass ratio of the solid acid to the oxide is 1 (0.1-0.9).
As a further technical scheme, the solid acid comprises one or more of phosphotungstic acid, phosphomolybdic acid, silicotungstic acid, silicomolybdic acid, p-toluenesulfonic acid and methanesulfonic acid.
As a further technical scheme, the oxide comprises one or two of silicon oxide and aluminum oxide.
As a further technical scheme, the mass ratio of the o-phenylphenoxyethanol to the second solvent in the S2 is 1 (0.6-5).
As a further technical scheme, the second solvent comprises one or more of cyclohexane, toluene, benzene and n-hexane.
As a further technical scheme, the temperature when the acrylic acid is added into the S2 is 70 ℃.
As a further technical scheme, the molar ratio of the o-phenylphenoxyethanol to the acrylic acid in the S2 is 1 (1.03-1.7).
As a further technical scheme, the temperature of the reflux in the step S2 is 78-93 ℃ and the time is 4-14 h.
As a further technical scheme, the mass of the polymerization inhibitor added in the S3 is 0.01% of the mass of the o-phenylphenoxyethanol.
As a further technical scheme, the vacuum degree is-0.03 to-0.1 MPa, the time is 4-10 h, and the temperature is 40-65 ℃ during reduced pressure distillation in the step S3.
The working principle and the beneficial effects of the invention are as follows:
1. the invention uses a continuous synthesis reaction system, improves the synthesis reaction efficiency of the o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate, shortens the reaction period, and solves the problems of poor stability and long production period of the o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate obtained by using kettle reaction at present.
2. According to the invention, o-phenylphenoxyethyl alcohol and acrylic acid are used as raw materials, solid acid and oxide are used as catalysts, and esterification reaction is carried out in the presence of a polymerization inhibitor and an antioxidant, so that the obtained o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate has high purity, high yield and high refractive index. Meanwhile, the recyclable solid acid and oxide are used as the catalyst, so that the waste of the catalyst is reduced, the production cost is further reduced, and the environmental pollution is reduced.
Detailed Description
The technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below in conjunction with the embodiments of the present invention, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by one of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the invention without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the invention.
Example 1
S1, adding 100g of o-phenylphenol and 2g of potassium hydroxide into a round bottom flask, adding 50g of absolute ethyl alcohol, stirring at 55 ℃ until the mixture is completely dissolved, adjusting the temperature of a corning micro-reaction channel mixer to 140 ℃, adjusting the pressure of the regulated ethylene oxide to 0.8MPa after the constant temperature, controlling the flow rate of 0.1mL/min to enter the corning micro-reaction channel mixer, controlling the molar ratio of the ethylene oxide to the o-phenylphenol to be 1:1, reacting for 0.5h, and directly performing reduced pressure distillation to obtain solid o-phenylphenoxyethanol (125.8 g);
s2, directly adding 3.774g of catalyst, 0.025g of p-methoxyphenol, 0.629g of hypophosphorous acid and 125g of cyclohexane into the solid obtained in the step S1, stirring and heating to 70 ℃, rapidly adding 50.8g of acrylic acid, continuously stirring and heating to 83 ℃ to reflux and divide water, starting timing, reacting for 8 hours, cooling the reaction solution to room temperature, filtering, collecting filtrate, and enabling the catalyst to consist of silicon oxide and phosphotungstic acid with the mass ratio of 0.4:1;
s3, washing the filtrate obtained in the step S2 to be neutral, refluxing and separating water, adding 0.015g of p-methoxyphenol, carrying out reduced pressure distillation, controlling the highest temperature to 65 ℃, and controlling the vacuum degree to be minus 0.098MPa, thereby obtaining 151.2g of product (yield 96.0%), wherein the purity of liquid chromatography is 94.0%, the color number is 10Haze (standard color comparison of platinum and cobalt), and the refractive index is 25℃:1.5777.
example 2
S1, adding 100g of o-phenylphenol and 1g of sodium carbonate into a round bottom flask, adding 30g of anhydrous methanol, stirring at 55 ℃ until the mixture is completely dissolved, adjusting the temperature of a corning micro-reaction channel mixer to be 80 ℃, adjusting the pressure of ethylene oxide to be 0.3MPa after the constant temperature, controlling the flow rate of 0.1mL/min into the corning micro-reaction channel mixer, controlling the molar ratio of the ethylene oxide to the o-phenylphenol to be 0.95:1, and directly performing reduced pressure distillation after reacting for 2 hours to obtain solid o-phenylphenoxyethanol (119.6 g);
s2, directly adding 2.392g of catalyst, 0.012g of hydroquinone, 0.12g of sodium hypophosphite and 71.8g of n-hexane into the solid obtained in the step S1, stirring and heating to 70 ℃, rapidly adding 41.5g of acrylic acid, continuously stirring and heating to 78 ℃ to reflux and divide water, starting timing, reacting for 14 hours, cooling the reaction solution to room temperature, filtering, collecting filtrate, and enabling the catalyst to consist of alumina and phosphomolybdic acid with the mass ratio of 0.1:1;
s3, washing the filtrate obtained in the step S2 to be neutral, refluxing and separating water, adding 0.012g of hydroquinone, carrying out reduced pressure distillation, controlling the highest temperature to be 55 ℃, and the highest vacuum degree to be-0.05 MPa to obtain 143g of product (the yield is 95.5%), wherein the purity of liquid chromatography is 93.5%, the color number is 10Haze (standard color comparison of platinum and cobalt), and the refractive index is 25℃:1.5772.
example 3
S1, adding 100g of o-phenylphenol and 20g of sodium bicarbonate into a round bottom flask, adding 200g of ethylene glycol dimethyl ether, stirring at 55 ℃ until the mixture is completely dissolved, adjusting the temperature of a corning micro-reaction channel mixer to 160 ℃, adjusting the pressure of ethylene oxide to 1.5MPa after constant temperature, controlling the flow rate of 0.1mL/min into the corning micro-reaction channel mixer, controlling the molar ratio of the ethylene oxide to the o-phenylphenol to be 1.7:1, reacting for 0.1h, and directly performing reduced pressure distillation to obtain the solid o-phenylphenoxyethanol (125.8 g);
s2, directly adding 12.58g of catalyst, 0.126g of copper sulfate, 1.258g of hypophosphorous acid and 629g of toluene into the solid obtained in the step S1, stirring and heating to 70 ℃, rapidly adding 71.9g of acrylic acid, continuously stirring and heating to 93 ℃ to reflux and divide water, starting timing, reacting for 4 hours, cooling the reaction solution to room temperature, filtering, collecting filtrate, and enabling the catalyst to consist of silicon oxide and p-toluenesulfonic acid with the mass ratio of 0.9:1;
s3, washing the filtrate obtained in the step S2 to be neutral, refluxing and separating water, adding 0.013g of copper sulfate, carrying out reduced pressure distillation, controlling the highest temperature to be 40 ℃, and the highest vacuum degree to be-0.03 MPa to obtain 149.8g of a product (the yield is 95.1%), wherein the liquid chromatography purity is 93.9%, the color number is 15Haze (standard color comparison of platinum and cobalt), and the refractive index is 25℃:1.5773.
example 4
The difference from example 1 is only that the addition of p-methoxyphenol in S3 is 0.035g, giving 149g of the product (yield 94.6%), the liquid chromatography purity is 93.2%, the color number is 15Haze (standard colorimetric for platinum cobalt), the refractive index is 25 ℃ C.): 1.5770.
example 5
The difference from example 1 was only that the amount of p-methoxyphenol added in S3 was 0.0065g, giving 148.5g of product (yield 94.3%), liquid chromatography purity 93.3%, colour number 15Haze (platinum cobalt standard colorimetric) and refractive index 25 ℃ C: 1.5771.
example 6
The difference from example 1 is only that the catalyst in S2 consists of silica and phosphotungstic acid in a mass ratio of 0.05:1, giving 148g of product (yield 94.0%), a liquid chromatographic purity of 93.2%, a colour number of 15Haze (standard colour comparison of platinum and cobalt), a refractive index of 25 ℃ C: 1.5770.
example 7
The difference from example 1 is only that the catalyst in S2 consists of silica and phosphotungstic acid in a mass ratio of 0.15:1, giving 148.4g of product (yield 94.2%), a liquid chromatographic purity of 93.3%, a colour number of 15Haze (standard colour comparison of platinum and cobalt), a refractive index of 25 ℃ C: 1.5771.
comparative example 1
The difference from example 1 is only that the silica in the S2 catalyst is calcined activated silica, giving 140.7g of product (89.3% yield), a liquid chromatography purity of 88.7%, a colour number of 30Haze (platinum cobalt standard colorimetric) and a refractive index of 25 ℃ C.): 1.5768.
the synthesis method of the o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate provided by the embodiments 1-3 of the invention has the advantages of high synthesis efficiency and short reaction period, and the obtained o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate has high yield and purity and high refractive index; examples 4 to 5 are different from example 1 only in that the addition amount of p-methoxyphenol in S3 is different, and the yield, purity and refractive index of the finally obtained o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate are lower than those of examples 1 to 3; the catalyst in the step S2 of the example 6 is composed of silicon oxide and phosphotungstic acid in a mass ratio of 0.05:1, the catalyst in the step S2 of the example 7 is composed of silicon oxide and phosphotungstic acid in a mass ratio of 0.15:1, and the yield, purity and refractive index of the obtained o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate are lower than those of the examples 1 to 3, so that the yield, purity and refractive index of the obtained o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate are optimal only when the mass ratio of solid acid to oxide in the catalyst is 1 (0.1 to 0.9).
Comparative example 1 differs from example 1 only in that the silica in the S2 catalyst is a calcined activated silica, which is used as a carrier of a phosphotungstic acid catalyst in the reaction system, whereas the silica and phosphotungstic acid in example 1 are used together as a catalyst for the reaction, resulting in lower yield, purity and refractive index of the o-phenylphenoxyethyl acrylate finally obtained in comparative example 1 than in example 1.
The foregoing description of the preferred embodiments of the invention is not intended to be limiting, but rather is intended to cover all modifications, equivalents, alternatives, and improvements that fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.