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Title:   Author  item
                                            Doll, Kenneth

                                                         - *Ken*item
                                            Erhan, Sevim
  Submitted to: Green Chemistry
                                    Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
                                    Publication Acceptance Date: 10/10/2005
                                    Publication  Date: 10/24/2005
                                    Citation: Doll, K.M., Erhan, S.Z. 2005. The improved synthesis of carbonated soybean oil using supercritical carbon dioxide at a reduced reaction time. Green Chemistry. 7:849-854.Interpretive Summary: We have made the useful cyclic carbonate of soybean oil from commercially available epoxidized soybean oil using a simple catalytic procedure.  The key to our synthesis is that we use the supercritical carbon dioxide which has higher density and higher oil solubility making it more reactive than carbon dioxide gas by  cutting the reaction time to 1/3 of that in a previous report.  Our synthesis uses only a small amount of catalyst, which we can remove by previously unreported yet simple method.  This research benefits the soybean oil industry by increasing the potential to commercialize new environmentally friendly polymer products.
                                Technical Abstract: We have demonstrated at improved synthesis of a cyclic carbonate of soybean oil (CSO) utilizing supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) as the solvent.  Because the mutual solubility of supercritical CO2 and oil is significantly higher than that of the gas, our method synthesizes the material in ~1/3 of the reaction time reported in the literature.  We have also demonstrated a catalyst removal method for our system based on the simple Hofmann elimination reaction reducing the need for organic solvent extraction.  CSO is a potential petroleum replacement, and may be useful in the synthesis of polymers based on bio-resources.


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