Kenya Chemical is one of the leading Maleic acid Exporters, Manufacturers, Suppliers, and Producers in Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Eldoret, Malindi, and Nairobi Kenya. We are supplied to various industrial markets including Household, Institutional Cleaning, Personal Care, and Industrial sectors including Oil fields, chemical, Animal feed additive, Food additive, Agrochemical, Fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, water treatment, Minerals, Lubricants, Marine Industry, Metal Working chemical industry, and Coatings markets.
Maleic acid or cis-butenedioic acid is an organic compound that is a dicarboxylic acid, a molecule with two carboxyl groups. Its chemical formula is HO2CCH=CHCO2H. Maleic acid is the cis-isomer of butenedioic acid, whereas fumaric acid is the trans-isomer. It is mainly used as a precursor to fumaric acid, and relative to its parent maleic anhydride, maleic acid has few applications.
MALEIC ACID
Chemical name: Cis-butenedioic Acid
Molecular formula: C4H4O4
Molecular weight: 116.07
CAS No.: 110-16-7
In industry, maleic acid is derived by hydrolysis of maleic anhydride, the latter being produced by oxidation of benzene or butane.
Maleic acid is an industrial raw material for the production of glyoxylic acid by ozonolysis.
Maleic acid may be used to form acid addition salts with drugs to make them more stable, such as indacaterol maleate.
Maleic acid is also used as an adhesion promoter for different substrates, such as nylon and zinc-coated metals e.g galvanized steel, in methyl methacrylate-based adhesives.
The major industrial use of maleic acid is its conversion to fumaric acid. This conversion, an isomerization, is catalyzed by a variety of reagents, such as mineral acids and thiourea. Again, the large difference in water solubility makes fumaric acid purification easy.
Isomerization is a popular topic in schools. Maleic acid and fumaric acid do not spontaneously interconvert because rotation around a carbon-carbon double bond is not energetically favorable. However, conversion of the cis isomer into the trans isomer is possible by photolysis in the presence of a small amount of bromine. Light converts elemental bromine into a bromine radical, which attacks the alkene in a radical addition reaction to a Bromo-alkane radical; and now single bond rotation is possible. The bromine radicals recombine and fumaric acid is formed. In another method (used as a classroom demonstration), maleic acid is transformed into fumaric acid through the process of heating the maleic acid in a hydrochloric acid solution. Reversible addition (of H+) leads to free rotation about the central C-C bond and the formation of the more stable and less soluble fumaric acid.
Main function and purpose
Maleic acid is mainly used to manufacture unsaturated polyester resin, pesticide, tartaric acid, fumaric acid, succinic acid, DL-Malic acid, dyeing auxiliary, and preservative grease.
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