Abstract:
Method for converting formaldehyde-cyanhydrin (FACH) with ethylenediamine (EDA) in a reactor with limited back-mixing at a temperature of between 20 and 120°C, characterised in that the dwell time in the reactor is 300 seconds or less.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for reacting ethylenediamine-formaldehyde adduct (EDFA) and/or ethylenediamine-monoformaldehyde adduct (EDMFA) with hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in a reactor with limited back mixing at a temperature in the range of 20 to 120°C, characterized in that the dwell time in the reactor is 300 seconds or less.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing EDDN and/or EDMN by reacting FA, HCN and EDA, the reaction being carried out in the presence of water, and separating the water from the reaction mixture in a distillation column after the reaction, characterized in that distillation is carried out in the presence of an organic solvent which, at the distillation pressure prevailing in the column, has a boiling point between that of water and EDDN and/or EDMN or which forms a low-boiling azeotrope with water.
Abstract:
The acid-catalysed esterification of mercaptoalkyl alcohols with carboxylic acids to give mercaptoalkyl carboxylates typically results in the formation of unwanted, usually sparingly soluble by-products. The process according to the invention in the absence of acid catalysts avoids the formation of such by-products. Especially in the case of performance of the inventive esterification as a reactive distillation using reactive column and delay vessel, it is possible to obtain good conversion rates even without acid catalyst and simultaneously to substantially avoid the formation of the by-products.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an aqueous polymer dispersion containing a polymer, which can be produced by a radically initiated emulsion polymerization from ethylenically unsaturated, radically polymerizable monomers, wherein the polymerization of the monomers is carried out in the presence of a specific molecular weight regulator composition. The molecular weight regulator composition contains at least one mercaptoalkylcarboxylic acid ester of a C2 to C4 carboxylic acid and at least one oligomeric compound of formula R 1 -X-(A-S-) n -A-Y-R 2 , where R 1 and R 2 denote H or CH 3 -(CH 2 ) 0-2 -C(=0)-, X and Y denote an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, A denotes a divalent C 1 - to C 18 -alkylene group, and n denotes a number from 1 to 8. The invention further relates to a method for producing the aqueous polymer dispersion. The polymer dispersion can be used as a binder, adhesive, sizing agent for fibers, for producing coatings or for producing paper coating compounds.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for separating a reaction product stemming from the reaction of EDDN or EDMN with hydrogen in the presence of THF and a catalyst that contains TETA or DETA, water and optionally organic compounds that have a higher or lower boiling point than TETA or DETA, characterized by a) adding the reaction product, once hydrogen was separated off, to a distillation column DK1 in which a THF/water azeotrope is separated off via the top, said azeotrope optionally containing other organic compounds having a lower boiling point than TETA or DETA, and in which column a bottom product which contains TETA or DETA is separated off, and ii) guiding the bottom product from stage i) to a distillation column DK2 and separating THF off via the top and removing a TETA- or DETA-containing stream at the bottom of the column, and iii) condensing the stream from stage i) removed at the top of the column DK1 and adding to the condensate or a part of the condensate an organic solvent, which is substantially immiscible with water, in such an amount that a phase decomposition takes place and separating the mixture so obtained in a phase separator, returning the arising organic phase, which contains THF and the organic solvent which is substantially immiscible with water, to the column DK1 and removing the aqueous phase.