Process for making renewable source-based citrate esters and acylated citrate esters (US Patent 9067879)

Patent number: 9067879 Kind code: B2 Granted: 2015-06-30 Filed: 2011-07-21 Inventors: Stephen Howard (Sherman, IL, US) Assignees: Archer Daniels Midland Company (Decatur, IL, US) CPC: C07C 67/08

Abstract

Improved processes are described for making trialkyl esters and acylated trialkyl esters of carboxylic acids, as well as epoxidized trialkyl esters and acylated trialkyl carboxylate esters, such as are used in developing plasticized PVC compositions. In particular, processes are