Abstract:
Alkyl-substituted unsaturated .delta.-lactams are obtained by contacting monocyanoethylated ketones with an aqueous acid solution and permitting them to react. Alkyl-substituted unsaturated .delta.-lactams of this invention are valuable intermediate products useful for organic synthesis in the production of pharmaceuticals and plastics.
Abstract:
A method of cleaving ketones at a carbon-carbon bond adjacent to the ketonic carbon to produce a terminal carboxylic ester and a terminal oxime group, which comprises, nitrosating the ketone in the presence of a polar aprotic solvent and an alcohol. The products are useful intermediates, particularly as intermediates in the production of polyamides, and as solvents. A method of synthesizing Epsilon -caprolactam from the intermediate omega hydroximino hexanoate, produced by cleaving cyclohexanone, hydrogenating the intermediate omega -aminohexanoate ester and cyclizing the corresponding ester thus formed, to Epsilon caprolactam.
Abstract:
An improved process for preparing 2-pyrrolidinone at relatively low pressures which comprises reduction of succinimide in an aqueous system at temperatures of about 225* to 275* C., at a pressure in the range of about 1,200 to 1,500 p.s.i.g. and in the presence of a supported palladium catalyst.
Abstract:
HIGH YIELD OF A-PYRROLIDONE ARE OBTAINED BY REACTING SUCCINONITRILE WITH HYDROGEN UNDER PRESSURE IN THE PRESENCE OF A HYDROGENATING CATALYST AT A TEMPERATURE OF 80* TO 200*C. IN A NITROGEN-CONTAINING BASIC ORGANIC SOLVENT FOR A REACTION PERIOD SHORTER THAN 3.7 MINUTES AND THEN CONTACTING THE THUS OBTAINED REACTION MIXTURE WITH WATER OR AQUEOUS AMMONIA SOLUTION AT A TEMPERATURE OF 200* TO 300*C. ALPHA-PYRROLIDONE IS USEFUL AS AN IMPORTANT RAW MATERIAL OF 4-NYLON AND AS A RAW MATERIAL FOR THE PRODUCTION OF N-METHYL PYRROLIDONE AND N-VINYL PYRROLIDONE, BOTH USEFUL AS A HIGH BOILING SOLVENT, OR AS A FIBER RAW MATERIAL.