Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for economically efficiently producing a high-purity diester of trimellitic anhydride. SOLUTION: The method for producing the diester of the trimellitic anhydride by reacting trimellitic anhydride chloride with a dihydroxy compound in the presence of a base includes collecting the diester of the trimellitic anhydride as a filtered product by adding acetic acid after the reaction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for economically and efficiently producing a high-purity aromatic carboxylic acid dianhydride having an ester group.SOLUTION: The method for producing the aromatic carboxylic acid dianhydride having the ester group by reacting acid chloride of trimellitic anhydride with an aromatic dihydroxy compound in the presence of a base uses acetonitrile as a reaction solvent. As a result, water-washing operation for removing by-produced hydrochloride becomes unnecessary, and a treating operation for returning a hydrolyzed product to the original becomes also unnecessary. Consequently, an impurity inhibiting the high purification is not formed. The aromatic carboxylic acid dianhydride free from such the impurity is suitable as a polymerization raw material because the impurity becomes an inhibiting factor for the polymerization reaction when using the aromatic carboxylic acid dianhydride as the polymerization raw material.