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Esterification of Lactic Acid with Alcohols  

Kim, Jong-Hwa (Department of Chemical and Bioengineering, Kyungwon University)
Han, Jee-Yeun (Department of Chemical and Bioengineering, Kyungwon University)
Lee, Sang-Wha (Department of Chemical and Bioengineering, Kyungwon University)
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Applied Chemistry for Engineering / v.16, no.2, 2005 , pp. 243-249 More about this Journal
Abstract
Esterification of lactic acid with alcohols catalyzed by Amberlyst-type ion exchange resins and sulfuric acid was carried out in a batch reactor with total /or partial recycle of distilled condensates, respectively. The esterification of lactic acid in the total-recycling reactor (n-butanol/lactic acid = 4, $100^{\circ}C$) was promoted by decreasing the residual water and increasing the mole ratio of n-butanol/lactic acid. Also, it was confirmed that methanol with simple structure and tert-butanol with superior substitution reactivity were more effective in increasing the conversion of esterification reaction, compared to ethanol, n-butanol, and iso-butanol. In a partial-recycling reactor (n-butanol/ammonium lactate = 4, $115^{\circ}C$), the conversion of ammonium lactate into butyl lactate with 1.0 wt% Amberyst-type resins was higher in comparison to that with 0.2 mol $H_2SO_4$ (per 1.0 mol ammonium lactate). The esterification was gradually occurred during the initial stage of reaction in the presence of solid catalyst, whereas the initial addition of $H_2SO_4$ did not affect the initial rate of esterification reaction because of ammonium sulfate formation by the neutralizing reaction of ammonium lactate with sulfuric acid.
Keywords
lactic acid; esterification; amberlyst resins; butyl lactate;
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