The Catalyzed Synthesis of Prenyl Alcohol in Anhydrous System

Abstract

In this paper, the prenyl alcohol was catalyzed synthesized in anhydrous system by using isoprene and dichloroacetic acid as raw material and sodium dichloroacetate as catalyst. The obtained product was mainly characterized by FT-IR and GC. Furthermore, the olefine acid ratio, reaction time, amount of catalyst, saponification time and NaOH concentration were systematically investigated during the work. The optimum reaction conditions are as follows: the olefine acid ratio was 1:2, reaction time was 2h, amount of catalyst was 1.8g, saponification time was 2h and NaOH concentration was 4mol/L, the yield of prenyl alcohol was 45%.