Abstract:
Shaped materials useful as catalyst for preparing cyclic lactams by reacting aminocarbonitriles with water in the liquid phase in a fixed bed reactor and which have no soluble constituents under the reaction conditions, comprising pyrogenic titanium dioxide as essential constituent, these compositions being obtainable by shaping the pyrogenic titanium dioxide into shaped articles and, before or after the shaping, treating the pyrogenic titanium dioxide with from 0.1 to 30% by weight, based on the pyrogenic titanium dioxide, of an acid in which pyrogenic titanium dioxide is sparingly soluble.
Abstract:
The invention relates to polycondensation resins which are prepared by polycondensation of compounds having a low molecular weight and separation of small molecules in the presence of at least one hetergeneous catalyst. The invention also relates to polyaddition resins which are prepared by polyaddition in the presence of at least one heterogeneous catalyst. The invention further relates to the use of said polycondensation resins and polyaddition resins for the preparation of moulded parts, adhesives and coating materials.
Abstract:
Cyclic lactams are prepared by reacting aminocarbonitriles with water in the liquid phase in a fixed bed reactor in the presence of a catalyst which comprises a catalytically active oxide, which has no soluble constituents under the reaction conditions and which consists of shaped articles obtainable by shaping the oxide into shaped articles and, before or after said shaping, treating the oxide with from 0.1 to 30% by weight, based on the oxide, of an acid in which the oxide is sparingly soluble.
Abstract:
An improved process for the preparation of caprolactam by heating 6-aminocapronitrile in the presence of a heterogenous catalyst and water under superatmospheric pressure without rapid deactivation of the catalysts used. The process further includes the addition of a low or high boiling alcohol in the heating phase, after which the products are obtained by distillation. The process further includes a method of working up the top and bottom products of the reactors to achieve higher yields.
Abstract:
A process for preparing N-methyl-2-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-ethylamine comprises hydrogenating 3,4-dimethoxyphenylacetonitrile with a methylamine of the general formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is hydrogen, benzyl or tert-butyl, and hydrogen in the presence of a supported catalyst which comprises from 0.05 to 50% by weight of copper chromite, copper, silver, gold, iron, cobalt, nickel, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, platinum or mixtures thereof, in the presence or absence of water at from 20.degree. to 200.degree. C. under from 1 to 300 bar.
Abstract:
Caprolactam and hexamethylenediamine are prepared simultaneously starting from adiponitrile by a process in which (a) adiponitrile is partially hydrogenated to give a mixture containing essentially 6-aminocapronitrile, hexamethylenediamine, ammonia, adiponitrile and hexamethyleneimine, (b) the mixture obtained in (a) is subjected to a distillation to give ammonia as the top product and a bottom product I, (c) the bottom product I containing essentially 6-aminocapronitrile, hexamethylenediamine, adiponitrile, hexamethyleneimine, inert compound A and ammonia, the ammonia content being lower than that of the mixture used in stage (b), is subjected to a second distillation to give a mixture comprising the inert compound A and ammonia as the top product and a bottom product II, (d) the bottom product II is subjected, in a third column, to a distillation to give the inert compound A as the top product and a bottom product III, (e) the bottom product III is subjected, in a fourth column, to a distillation to give a top product KP1, containing essentially hexamethyleneimine and a bottom product IV, (f) the top product KP1 is subjected, in a fifth column, to a distillation to give a top product KP2, which contains essentially hexamethyleneimine, and (g) the bottom product IV containing essentially 6-aminocapronitrile and adiponitrile is subjected, in a sixth column, to a distillation to give 6-aminocapronitrile, and the 6-aminocapronitrile thus obtained is then cyclized to give caprolactam.
Abstract:
A process for preparing 5-cyanovaleramide by reacting adiponitrile with water at from 50.degree. to 200.degree. C. in the presence of a supported unionized-copper catalyst comprises employing from 1 to 15 mol of water per mole of adiponitrile and a residence time of from 5 to 60 minutes.
Abstract:
In a process for preparing water-absorbent resins based on acrylic acid, crude acrylic acid is firstly isolated from the reaction gases from the catalytic gas-phase oxidation of propane, propylene and/or acrolein. This is treated with an aldehyde scavenger and pure acrylic acid is separated by distillation from the treated crude acrylic acid, and this pure acrylic acid can be subjected directly to a free-radical polymerization.
Abstract:
A process prepares an aqueous alkali metal acrylate solution by distillatively removing acrylic acid from a mixture as vapors and taking up the vapors immediately from the gas phase into an aqueous alkali solution.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the use of neurokinin-1 receptor antagonists as testosterone replacement therapy. In a further aspect the invention relates to the use of neurokinin-1 receptor antagonists for the preparation of medicaments for treating conditions associated with low testosterone levels, in patients having deficient testosterone levels. In another aspect the invention relates to the use of neurokinin-1 receptor antagonists for the preparation of medicaments for treating hypogonadism in men.