The invention discloses a photocurable
maleic anhydride tung oil
acrylic resin and a preparation method thereof. The technical scheme is as follows: the photocurable
maleic anhydride tung oil
acrylic resin comprises the following components: 1 mol of elacostearic acid, 2 mol of
maleic anhydride (
fumaric acid) and 4-5 mol of hydroxy acrylic
monomer. The preparation method comprises the following steps: hydrolyzing tung oil at
high pressure so as to obtain alfa-elacostearic acid, carrying out
addition reaction on the maleic anhydride or the
fumaric acid and a conjugated
double bond of the alfa-elacostearic acid to generate a maleic / fumaric elacostearic acid, and then carrying out
esterification reaction on hydroxyethyl
acrylate (HEA), hydroxypropyl
acrylate (HPA),
hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) or
hydroxypropyl methacrylate (HPMA) and the maleic / fumaric elacostearic acid to obtain various high-activity photocurable maleic anhydride tung oil penta-acrylic resins with 4-5 functionalities. The photocurable maleic anhydride tung oil
acrylic resin has the characteristics of environment friendliness, no
solvent,
hydrolysis resistance and the like; and the paint film has excellent
hardness and flexibility; as renewable resources are used for replacing a part of
petrochemical products, and after the workpieces painted with the resin are discarded, the paint film is easy to degrade, and the harm of the pure chemical
coating film to the environment is avoided; and after the resin is added with a
photoinitiator, various photocureable coatings,
printing ink and the like can be prepared.