One of the unique missions of Clariant is to act as a focal point for leveraging the entire capability of the global Clariant organization on behalf of its customers. An example of this activity is seen in our work with glycol diethers – commonly called ‘glymes’.
Glymes are very powerful solvents. "Glyme" is the abbreviation for Ethylene glycol dimethyl ether. Products like Monoglyme, Diglyme, Triglyme, Tetraglyme, Butyl Diglyme and Dipropylene glycol dimethyl ether are used in many industrial applications. Some of the general properties of these versatile active solvents are described on these pages.
Glymes are polyethylene glycols or polypropylene glycols with an end-capping. Hence, they do not have a free hydroxyl functionality.
Standard organic groups used for the endcapping are methyl- allyl -vinyl and butyl.
There are two main types of applications:
- Aprotic, inert solvents (Glymes)
- Reactive glycol diethers (Polyglycol allyl methyl ethers)
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