Patent ID: 8026374
Filing Date: 2011-09-27
Classification: C07D

Abstract:
1. A process for preparing a (meth)acrylic ester of an N-hydroxyalkylated imidazole, the process comprising esterifying an N-hydroxyalkylated imidazole of formula (I) in which R R m and n are each integers in a range of in each case from 0 to 20, where m and n cannot simultaneously be 0, and in which the particular units bracketed by the variables m and n are present in any sequence, and in which, in the case that m≧2, R in the presence of at least one catalyst, with (meth)acrylic acid or transesterifying said N-hydroxyalkylated imidazole with at least one (meth)acrylic ester of a saturated alcohol.