Abstract
The principal characteristics and products of thermal degradation of a commercial epoxy resin prepared by reaction of 2,2-bis(4′-hydroxy phenyl)propane (bisphenol-A) with 1-chloro-2,3-epoxy propane (epichlorhydrin) have been studied. The principal volatile products, acrolein, acetone and allyl alcohol, are formed at 280°C and, although cross-linking is detectable at 220°C, it only becomes significant at 320°C when the residual resin is brittle and insoluble. Decomposition of the cross-linked resin occurs above 340°C when phenolic compounds appear together with more complex products with higher molecular weights whose structures have been speculated upon from examination of their mass spectral characteristics.
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