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Vegetable oil‐based triols from hydroformylated fatty acids and polyurethane elastomers
Author(s) -
Petrović Zoran S.,
Cvetković Ivana,
Hong DooPyo,
Wan Xianmei,
Zhang Wei,
Abraham Timothy W.,
Malsam Jeffrey
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
european journal of lipid science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.614
H-Index - 94
eISSN - 1438-9312
pISSN - 1438-7697
DOI - 10.1002/ejlt.200900087
Subject(s) - trimethylolpropane , transesterification , glass transition , shore durometer , organic chemistry , polymer chemistry , chemistry , oleic acid , polyurethane , double bond , prepolymer , hydroxymethyl , materials science , polymer , catalysis , composite material , biochemistry
Novel bio‐based polyols were prepared from hydroformylated oleic acid (9/10‐hydroxymethyl‐octadecanoic acid) methyl esters (HFME) and trimethylolpropane by transesterification. Hydroformylation produces primary hydroxyls, which allow relatively lower transesterification temperatures and better yields than hydroxy fatty acids with secondary hydroxyl groups. These non‐crystallizing polyols have no double bonds and their viscosities are acceptable. Polyurethane (PU) elastomers prepared by reaction of these polyols with diphenylmethane diisocyanate had glass transition temperatures from –33 to –56 °C, depending on the molecular weight of the triols. Tensile strength and Shore A hardness were higher, and elongation, swelling and sol fraction lower than those of corresponding networks from polyricinoleic acid polyols. The plasticizing effect of longer dangling chains in HFME‐based PU compensated, to a degree, the presence of double bonds in ricinoleic acid, effectively resulting in similar glass transitions between the two families of polyols.