Chemistry, Vol 7, No 1 (2014)

New Gasoline Components of High Octane Number Made of Plant Raw Materials

Valery E Tarabanko, Mikhail Yu. Chernyak, Andrey A. Morozov, Yury N. Bezborodov, Konstantin L. Kaygorodov, Nina F. Orlovskaya, Ivan V. Nadeykin

Abstract


The possibility of the acid-catalyzed furfuryl alcohol alkylation with butanol is demonstrated. Preparative quantity of butyl furfuryl ether and propyl furfuryl ether are obtained and their research octane numbers are measured (97,4 ± 3,2 и 112,9 ± 3,5, correspondingly).