Abstract:
1,2-Dichlorobenzene can be prepared by reacting 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene in the gas phase with hydrogen. The reaction is carried out at a temperature from the boiling point of the starting material up to about 400.degree. C. and over a platinum-spinel catalyst.
Abstract:
Process for the preparation of an arylglyoxylic acid of the formula Ar--CO--COOH, wherein Ar is optionally substituted aryl, which process comprises oxidizing the corresponding arylethane-1,2-diol of the formula ##STR1## with oxygen or a gas containing molecular oxygen, in an aqueous alkaline medium and in the presence of a platinum-group metal catalyst and, as an activator, a material selected from lead, lead compounds, bismuth and bismuth compounds, at a temperature of up to the boiling point of the reaction mixture; e.g. phenylglyoxylic acid is produced from phenylethane-1,2-glycol preferably using platinum activated with lead, bismuth, or compounds thereof.
Abstract:
2-Halogenoindan-1-ones are prepared in an advantageous manner by converting anilines into diazonium salts and these, with acrylic compounds, into 3-phenyl-1-halogenoproprionic acid derivatives, and latter are cyclized.
Abstract:
N-Phenyl-1-naphthylamine can be prepared by reaction of aniline and 1-naphthylamine in the liquid phase at 100-400.degree. C. under normal pressure, a catalyst mixture comprising boron and fluorine being employed. Such catalyst mixtures can be obtained, for example, by reaction of hydrogen fluoride, boric acid and aniline and/or 1-naphthylamine. The catalyst is recovered and can be employed again. The reaction can be carried out discontinuously or continuously.
Abstract:
Impure POCl.sub.3 is purified by distillation in the presence of high-boiling nitrogen compounds from the group consisting of the substituted pyridines and pyrimidines, the open-chain and cyclic aliphatic amines, the open-chain and cyclic amidines, the guanidines and the aromatic amines.
Abstract:
The new process for preparing 4,4'-dinitrostilbene-2,2'-disulphonic acid and salts thereof by oxidation of 4-nitrotoluene-2-sulphonic acid with an oxidant in the presence of strong bases is characterized in that the oxidation is carried out in a mixture of water and an organic solvent selected from the group consisting of alcohols, ethers and mixtures thereof.
Abstract:
3-Fluoro-4,6-dichlorotoluene can be prepared in a particularly favourable manner by first chlorinating 3-fluorotoluene at low temperature in the presence of a Friedel-Crafts catalyst and a heterocyclic cocatalyst to give a mixture containing 3-fluoro-4-chlorobenzene and 3-fluoro-6-chlorobenzene, and subsequently, without intermediate isolation, further chlorinating this mixture, at higher temperature, after addition of further Friedel-Crafts catalyst and further heterocyclic cocatalyst, to give 3-fluoro-4,6-dichlorotoluene.
Abstract:
The new process for the preparation of 2-nitrobenzaldehydes of the general formula ##STR1## in which X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 either independently of one another represent hydrogen or halogen or one of the substituents represents nitro and the other substituent then represents hydrogen,by oxidation of 2-nitrotoluenes of the general formula ##STR2## in which X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 have the meaning indicated above is characterized in that the oxidation with oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas is carried out in the presence of at least one alkoxyalkylamine as a solvent and in the presence of strong bases.
Abstract:
Halogenated benzenes are hydrodehalogenated in a particularly advantageous manner and at low temperatures by contacting them at temperatures of between 100.degree. and 250.degree. C. together with hydrogen with a catalyst prepared by application of one or more salts of palladium and/or platinum and, if desired, of copper to an alumina or titanium dioxide support.
Abstract:
When the halogen content of polyhalogenated aromatics is decreased by reaction with monohalogenated and/or non-halogenated aromatics in the gas phase, good yields and significantly improved catalyst service lives are achieved if the reaction is carried out in the presence of a catalyst and in the presence of a hydrogen halide.