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Ethylene carbonate to dimethyl carbonate - why not directly from methanol?

Parop - 8-10-2016 at 08:03

This thread here describes the former method:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=9791#p...

Shouldn't a direct synthesis from MeOH + Urea accomplish the same?

UC235 - 8-10-2016 at 09:07

Significant heating is needed to drive the initial reaction and methanol would boil off. It can't be run under pressure because the ammonia needs to be removed to push the equilibrium

stygian - 15-10-2017 at 18:06

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222917755_Synthesis...