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- Title
Recycling of End‐of‐Life Poly(bisphenol A carbonate) via Alkali Metal Halide‐Catalyzed Phenolysis.
- Authors
Alberti, Christoph; Scheliga, Felix; Enthaler, Stephan
- Abstract
The chemical recycling of end‐of‐life plastic waste streams can contribute to a resource‐conserving and sustainable society. This matter of recycling is composed of a sequence of depolymerization and subsequent polymerization reactions. In this regard, we have studied the chemical recycling of end‐of‐life poly(bisphenol A carbonate) applying phenol as depolymerization reagent. In the presence of catalytic amounts of alkali metal halides as products bisphenol A and diphenyl carbonate were obtained in excellent turnover frequencies of up to 1392 h−1 and short reaction times. These depolymerization products offer the straightforward possibility to close the cycle by producing new poly(bisphenol A carbonate) and as second product phenol, which can be reused for further depolymerizations.
- Subjects
ALKALI metals; ALKALI metal halides; PLASTIC recycling; CARBONATES; PLASTIC scrap; CARBONATE minerals
- Publication
ChemistryOpen, 2019, Vol 8, Issue 7, p822
- ISSN
2191-1363
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/open.201900149