Abstract
The reaction of o-hydroxybenzyl alcohol with phenyl isocyanate has been investigated in different polar solvents with in situ FT-IR. The rate constants for the reactions of the phenolic hydroxyl group and the aliphatic hydroxyl group were calculated as k 1 and k 2, respectively. It is found that the phenolic hydroxyl group reacts more easily than the aliphatic hydroxyl group. It is also found that k 1 increases with increasing solvent polarity, while the trend of k 2 is the opposite. Moreover, the reaction kinetics is second-order with respect to toluene, butyl acetate, cyclohexanone and pyridine, but is first-order with respect to NMP and DMF without distinction for the two kinds of hydroxyl groups.
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