Abstract:
The invention is directed to cyclic acetals of glutamic acid-.gamma.-semialdehyde of the formula ##STR1## in which A is an unsubstituted alkylene group having 2 to 3 carbon atoms or such an alkylene group substituted by 1 to 2 methyl groups and to a method of producing a compound of formula (I) by reaction of a compound of the general formula ##STR2## in which A is as defined above with hydrogen cyanide or a cyanide ion supplying compound, ammonia or an ammonium ion supplying compound and carbon dioxide or a carbonate ion supplying compound and basic hydrolysis of the reaction mixture obtained and to using the compound of formula (I) to produce D,L-proline.
Abstract:
Tryptophane hydantoin is prepared by(a) reacting a compound of the general formula ##STR1## where A is an alkylene group having 2 or 3 carbon atoms or such an alkylene group substituted by 1 to 2 methyl groups in aqueous or aqueous alcoholic solution with hydrogen cyanide or a cyanide ion supplying compound, ammonia or an ammonium ion supplying compound and carbon dioxide or a carbonate ion supplying compound and(b) reacting the reaction mixture obtained with phenyl hydrazine at a pH between 0.1 and 4.
Abstract:
The production of 1-amino-propanediol-2,3 is attained with good yields and in an industrially simple manner by reacting liquid ammonia with glycidol under pressure in the presence of a small amount of an organic solvent.
Abstract:
The invention is directed to 2-[2'-(hydanto-5-yl)-ethyl]-5,5-dimethyl-1,3-dioxane of the formula ##STR1## its production by reaction of 2-(2'-formylethyl)-5,5-dimethyl-1,3-dioxane with hydrogen cyanide or a cyanide ion supplying compound, ammonia, or an ammonium ion supplying compound and carbon dioxide or a carbonate ion supplying compound in aqueous alcoholic solution and its use for the production of tryptophane-hydantoin.
Abstract:
4-aminobutyramide hydrochloride is produced by hydrogenation of 3-cyanopropionamide in the presence of a solvent inert under the reaction conditions, a noble metal catalyst and hydrogen chloride at a temperature between 5.degree. and 80.degree. C. The hydrochloride can be easily converted into 4-aminobutyramide which as such or in the form of derivatives has significance as a neurotransmitter.
Abstract:
Catalysts used in the epoxidation or hydroxylation of water soluble olefinic compound with hydrogenperoxide are recovered by separating the catalyst as a distillation residue, the distillation residue is introduced into an inert material which is in whirling movement, e.g., as a fluidized bed, the organic compounds contained in the distillation residue are burned with oxygen or oxygen containing gases whereupon the catalyst compound separated on the inert whirling material together with the portion of the catalyst compound which accumulates in the solids separator connected at the outlet of the reactor is dissolved in water and the solution obtained again used for epoxidation or hydroxylation.
Abstract:
There are prepared .alpha.-ketocarboxylic acid amides of the formula ##STR1## where R is hydrogen, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are the same or different, R.sub.1 is alkyl of 1 to 18 carbon atoms or haloalkyl, preferably chloroalkyl, of 1 to 18 carbon atoms, and R.sub.2 is hydrogen, alkyl of 1 to 18 carbon atoms or haloalkyl, preferably chloroalkyl, of 1 to 18 carbon atoms or ##STR2## together is a cycloalkyl group of 3 to 8 carbon atoms which can be substituted by one or more 1 to 5 carbon atom alkyl groups or by one or more halogen atoms, preferably chlorine atoms, with the proviso that when ##STR3## form a cycloalkyl group then R can also be alkyl of 1 to 5 carbon atoms. The process comprises saponifying an acyl cyanide of the formula ##STR4## in which R, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are as defined above in an organic solvent or mixture of such solvents which is liquid and inert under the reaction conditions, first with gaseous hydrogen chloride and then treating with water at a temperature of about -70.degree. C. to about +70.degree. C. and then isolating the .alpha.-ketocarboxylic acid amide in conventional manner. Several of the cyclic .alpha.-ketocarboxylic acid amides are new compounds.