Fatemeh Mohtadi Zadeh - Department of Color, Resin and Surface Coatings, Iran Polymer and Petrochemical Institute, Tehran,PO Box 14965-115, Iran
m.j Zohuriaan-Mehr - Color & Resin Dept., Polymer Processing Faculty, Iran Polym. Petrochem. Inst., PO Box 14965-115, Tehran, Iran

The acrylation of 4,4′-methylenebis(N,N-diglycidylaniline) epoxy resin was carried out through the reaction with acrylic acid in the presence of triphenyl phosphine under microwave irradiation. The conversion of epoxy to estergroup was monitored by FTIR spectroscopy measurements. The main advantage of the microwave processes was significant reduction of reaction time (~ 40 s) in comparison with the method of conventional heating (~ 10 h).

epoxy resin, acrylation, microwave irradiation, synthesis, tetra-functional epoxy resin