Seeking information on the properties of sodium alcohol catalysts~~
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Sodium alkoxide is used as a catalyst in the ethoxylation reaction of alcohols and ethylene oxide. For methanol, sodium methoxide is used; so will the mass of this catalyst increase during the reaction? Can ethylene oxide couple with sodium alcohol? Because in the ethoxylation catalytic distillation column, the calculated methanol level at the bottom of the column is always too high. It seems that not all of the epichlorohydrin that appeared to have reacted did so with methanol and monoethers. I’d really like to hear everyone discuss the properties of sodium alkoxide catalysts (such as sodium methoxide, sodium ethoxide, sodium butoxide, etc.).
The propylene glycol methyl ether produced by our company uses sodium methoxide as a catalyst, so the situation you mentioned will not occur