Methanolysis of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in the presence of aluminium tiisopropoxide catalyst to form dimethyl terephthalate and ethylene glycol

By H. Kurokawa, Masa–aki Ohshima, K. Sugiyama, H. Miura. 2003

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Pollution, Polymers and Plastics

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In Biomaterials

1. Andreas Kandelbauer
2. G. Lorenz
3. Björn Geyer
4. M. Grigore

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1. Andreas Kandelbauer
2. G. Lorenz
3. Björn Geyer
4. M. Grigore

Citations in the corpus

• Methods of Recycling, Properties and Applications of Recycled Thermoplastic Polymers (2017, background): “Also, Kurokawa H and co-workers have reported that the rate of methanolysis strongly depends on the solubility of PET [55].”
• Recycling of poly(ethylene terephthalate) – A review focusing on chemical methods (2016, methodology): “[146] studied the effect of aluminium tri-isopropoxide (ATIP) as catalyst and the solvent mixture of methanol and toluene on methanol-”