ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BADGE HYDROLYSIS PRODUCTS.

Heating a suspension of Bisphenol A diglycidyl ether (BADGE) in 20:80 tetrahydrofuran/water at 70°C and subsequent passage of the resulting solution through C18 colunms allowed isolation and purification to > 97% of each of the two hydrolysis products 2-[4-(2,3-dihydroxypropoxy) phenyl]-2-14-(2,3-epoxypropoxy)phenyl]propane (1HP) and 2,2-bis[4-(2,3-dihydroxypropoxy)phenyl] propane (2HP), which were characterized by UV, IR, ¹H and [sup13]C NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]