The reaction of phenol with formaldehyde

GR Sprengling, JH Freeman

Index: Sprengling; Freeman Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1950 , vol. 72, p. 1982,1983

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Abstract

It is generally agreed that the first isolable products of the alkali catalyzed reaction between phenols and formaldehyde in aqueous solution are hydroxybenzyl alcohols, commonly called methylol phenols. It seems very probable that all of the bonds tying the phenol residues together in phenolic resins have been formed by subsequent reactions of the methylol groups thus initially introduced. The position of the methylol groups and the ratio ...