Process for the manufacture of polycarboxylic acid polyglycidyl esters

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Process for the manufacture of polyglycidyl esters of aromatic, aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or heterocyclic polycarbocyclic acids, characterised in that polyalkyl esters having 1 to 4 C-atoms in the alkyl group. of the corresponding polycarbocyclic acids are transesterified with at least stoichiometric amounts of glycidol, in the presence of a thallium compound as the catalyst, in a temperature range of 50 to 120°C and the alcohol formed during the transesterification is removed continuously from the reaction mixture.