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GREEN CHEMISTRY
卷 24, 期 2, 页码 754-766出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1gc03864h
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- European Union [821366]
- FWO [S001819N]
- FNRS [EOS 30489208]
- H2020 Societal Challenges Programme [821366] Funding Source: H2020 Societal Challenges Programme
The upcycling of harmful phthalate esters extracted from PVC waste into safer plasticizers through catalytic one-pot (trans)esterification-hydrogenation process was reported. Challenges arose when applying the reaction to PVC-extracted phthalates due to hydrogenolysis of benzyl phthalates and impurities in the extract, which were eventually resolved by coupling hydrogenation with in situ (trans)esterification and pretreating the extract with an activated carbon adsorbent.
Recycling of end-of-life polyvinyl chloride (PVC) calls for solutions to deal with the vast amounts of harmful phthalate plasticizers that have historically been incorporated in PVC. Here, we report on the upcycling of such waste-extracted phthalate esters into analogues of the much safer diisononyl 1,2-cyclohexanedicarboxylate plasticizer (DINCH), via a catalytic one-pot (trans)esterification-hydrogenation process. For most of the virgin phthalates, Ru/Al2O3 is a highly effective hydrogenation catalyst, yielding >99% ring-hydrogenated products under mild reaction conditions (0.1 mol% Ru, 80 degrees C, 50 bar H-2). However, applying this reaction to PVC-extracted phthalates proved problematic, (1) as benzyl phthalates are hydrogenolyzed to benzoic acids that inhibit the Ru-catalyst, and (2) because impurities in the plasticizer extract (PVC, sulfur) further retard the hydrogenation. These complications were solved by coupling the hydrogenation to an in situ (trans)esterification with a higher alcohol, and by pretreating the extract with an activated carbon adsorbent. In this way, a real phthalate extract obtained from post-consumer PVC waste was eventually completely (>99%) hydrogenated to phthalate-free, cycloaliphatic plasticizers.
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