Curing of glycidyl ethers with aromatic amines: model studies on the effects of tertiary amines as accelerators

Abstract The effect of N , N -dimethylbenzylamine on the reaction of glycidyl ethers with primary aromatic amines has been investigated using diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A and 4,4′-diaminodiphenylmethane. With the help of model reactions of phenyl glycidyl ether and aniline, etherification and homopolymerization were found to interfere with the epoxy-amine reaction. Products arising from etherification were identified.