- Title
- Aspects of the resorcinol-formaldehyde condensation
- Creator
- Waldron, Ronald Augustus Frank
- Subject
- Resorcinol
- Subject
- Formaldehyde
- Date Issued
- 1954
- Date
- 1954
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc
- Identifier
- vital:4514
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013460
- Description
- An attempt was made to producea -β or Ϫ - resorcinyl alcohol from disubstituted resorcinyls. To accomplish this 3,5-dibromo-β-resorcylic acid was reacted with lithium aluminium hybride, a mild reducing agent, in an attempt to reduce the acid group to the alcohol group. This disubstituted resorcinol was recovered unchanged. 3,5-dibromo-β-resorcyl-aldehyde was reduced by lithium aluminium hydride, but, instead of the alcohol forming, resinification took place. 2-methyl- 4-ethylresorcinol and 4,6-diethyrecorinol were reacted with formaldehyde under alkaline and acidic conditions. In each case a resin formed. The above experlments indicated that condensation took place in the meta position of the resorcinol molecule. Trimethylresorcinol was therefore reacted with formaldehyde under alkaline conditions, resulting in a small quantity ot the alcohol derivative. A better yield of the alcohol derivative was obtained by the hydrolysis or the chloromathyl derivative. In pursuing this line, a seres of new compounds and their derivatives were prepared. The condensation of the alcohol derivative with trimethylresorcinol and also with resorcinol was investigated.
- Format
- 126p.
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science, Chemistry
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Waldron, Ronald Augustus Frank
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