Abstract
A double metal cyano (DMC) catalyst is very effective for ring opening polymerization of propylene oxide (PO). The characteristics of the DMC complex were studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and thermogravimetry (TG). DMC complex generally result in a significant reduction of monols in the polyol production process. DMC catalyst is characterized by an approximately 1000 times higher activity compared to the conventional KOH catalyst. Disadvantages of the conventional KOH process are long reaction times, costly work-up procedures to remove the base catalyst and the formation of undesired unsaturated by-products (so called “monols”) especially in the preparation of long chain polyether polyols.
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