title: One-Pot Conversion of Epoxidized Soybean Oil (ESO) into Soy-Based Polyurethanes by MoCl₂O₂ Catalysis.
abstract: An innovative and eco-friendly one-pot synthesis of bio-based polyurethanes is proposed via the epoxy-ring opening of epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) with methanol, followed by the reaction of methoxy bio-polyols intermediates with 2,6-tolyl-diisocyanate (TDI). Both synthetic steps, methanolysis and polyurethane linkage formation, are promoted by a unique catalyst, molybdenum(VI) dichloride dioxide (MoCl₂O₂), which makes this procedure an efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally safer method amenable to industrial scale-up.
authors.affiliation: Greenswitch s.r.l., 75013 Ferrandina (MT), Italy. enzopantone@hotmail.it.
authors.forename: Vincenzo
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pantone
authors.affiliation: ICCOM-CNR, SS Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy. annese@ba.iccom.cnr.it.
authors.forename: Cosimo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Annese
authors.affiliation: ICCOM-CNR, SS Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy. fusco@ba.iccom.cnr.it.
authors.forename: Caterina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fusco
authors.affiliation: IPCF-CNR, SS Bari, via E. Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy. p.fini@ba.ipcf.cnr.it.
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fini
authors.affiliation: ICCOM-CNR, SS Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy. angelo.nacci@uniba.it.|Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Bari "A. Moro", Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy. angelo.nacci@uniba.it.
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nacci
authors.affiliation: Greenswitch s.r.l., 75013 Ferrandina (MT), Italy. antonella.russo@greenswitch.it.
authors.forename: Antonella
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Russo
authors.affiliation: ICCOM-CNR, SS Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy. lucia.daccolti@uniba.it.|Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Bari "A. Moro", Via Orabona 4, 70126 Bari, Italy. lucia.daccolti@uniba.it.
authors.forename: Lucia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: D'Accolti
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D060326:Chemistry Techniques, Synthetic; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D011140:Polyurethanes / Q000138:chemical synthesis*; D066244:Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D013024:Soybean Oil / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011140:Polyurethanes; C554142:epoxidized soybean oil; D013024:Soybean Oil
keywords: bio-based polyurethane; catalysis; one-pot synthesis; oxidation