Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company

Jörg Friedrich Wilhelm Weber

Jihad Mohammed Dakka

Stephen Zushma

Edmund John Mozeleski

Allen David Godwin

Diana S Smirnova

Lisa Saunders Baugh

Karla Schall Colle

Catherine Anne Faler

Christine A Costello

Thomas Marshall Larson

Paul Hamden Daniels

Pierre Osterrieth

Colle Karla Schall

Provided is a process for making non-phthalate plasticizers, by acylating an aromatic compound with a succinic anhydride to form a keto-acid, and then esterifying the keto-acid with C-COXO-alcohols to form a plasticizer compound. The aromatic rings of the aromatic compound may also be optionally hydrogenated.

Aromatic acylation with cyclic anhydride for plasticizer production

Provided are compounds of the formula: wherein m=0-3 and n=0-3, andRrepresents CHwherein x=0 to 4 or cyclohexane; Rrepresents H, a C-Calkyl group at any of the ortho-, meta- or para-positions, a residue including heteroatoms chosen from O, N, and S, or mixtures thereof; and Rand Rrepresent hydrocarbon residues of OXO-C-Calcohols which are different isomers of equal carbon number or different in carbon number. Also provided are processes for making the compounds and plasticized polymer compositions containing said compounds.

Alkyl aromatic plasticizers and methods of making

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