The invention relates to a method for cleaving and at least partially recycling the starting components of a thermoset
epoxy resin which is the
polymerization product of a
dicarboxylic acid diglycidyl ester of formula (I) and a
diamine of formula (II): (I) wherein R1 represents a C1-20 alkylene group, H2N-R2-NH2 (II) wherein R2 represents a C1-20 alkylene group, but the two amino groups are not directly bonded to an aromatic ring; the thermoset
epoxy resin has substantially the following structure: (A) wherein the wavy lines each represent the bonding of a
nitrogen atom to another 2-hydroxypropyl group, where the method comprises the following steps a) to e): a) subjecting the resin to alcoholysis to obtain the corresponding diester of the corresponding
dicarboxylic acid and a diester of the corresponding
dicarboxylic acid according to formula (I) and a diester of the corresponding diester of the corresponding dicarboxylic acid according to formula (I); the present invention relates to a corresponding
diamine ("
polyol") of formula (II) substituted by 1, 3-dihydroxypropyl:
polyol; b) performing
acetylation at elevated temperature to obtain
acetamide of
diamine ("diamide") and
triacetin of formula (II): diamide
triacetin; c) deacetylating the diamide to obtain a diamine
monomer of formula (II); d) deacetylating the
triacetin to obtain
glycerol, which is subsequently converted to
glycidol; and e) transesterifying the diester obtained in step a) with the
glycidol obtained in step d) to obtain the corresponding dicarboxylic acid diglycidyl ester of formula (I); the invention also relates to a method for producing such thermosetting
epoxy resins and to novel resins produced in this way.