摘要:
.delta.-Formylvalerates are prepared by a process wherein a 3-pentenoate is treated with an isomerization catalyst at elevated temperatures and a 4-pentenoate is distilled off, and the resulting 4-pentenoate is reacted with carbon monoxide and hydrogen at from 80 to 160.degree. C. under from 1 to 30 bar in the presence of a rhodium carbonyl complex which has been modified with tertiary organic phosphines or phosphites.
摘要:
Methyl 4-pentenoate is isolated from mixtures containing this and methyl 3-pentenoate by a process in which from 0.25 to 0.4 part by weight of water is added per part by weight of methyl 4-pentenoate, and the azeotrope of methyl 4-pentenoate and water is distilled off.
摘要:
A process for the manufacture of butanedicarboxylic acid esters, wherein(a) an aqueous cobalt salt solution is treated with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of active charcoal,(b) the resulting aqueous solution is extracted with butadiene or with a hydrocarbon mixture containing butadiene,(c) the butadiene, or butadiene/hydrocarbon mixture, containing cobalt carbonyl hydride, cobalt carbonyl and butenyl-cobalt tricarbonyl, is reacted with carbon monoxide and an excess of an alkanol of 1 to 4 carbon atoms in the presence of a tertiary nitrogen base,(d) the tertiary nitrogen bases contained in the resulting reaction mixture are removed from the latter to the extent of leaving from 0.1 to 0.3 mole per mole of pentenoic acid ester, excess hydrocarbons are also removed, the pentenoic acid ester remaining in the reaction mixture is reacted with carbon monoxide and an alkanol of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and thereafter excess alkanol and free nitrogen base are distilled off and(e) the residual reaction mixture, containing cobalt catalysts, butanedicarboxylic acids and by-products is treated with an oxidizing agent in an aqueous acid medium and the mixture is separated into an organic phase, from which butanedicarboxylic acid esters are isolated by distillation, and an aqueous phase containing cobalt salts, which phase is extracted with a water-immiscible solvent.
摘要:
Cyclic ketones of the formula ##STR1## where n is an integer from 4 to 6, are prepared by converting an aliphatic dicarboxylate of the formulaR.sup.1 OCC--(CH.sub.2).sub.n --COOR.sup.2 IIwhere n has the above meaning, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each alkyl, cycloalkyl, aralkyl or aryl and R.sup.2 may furthermore be hydrogen, at from 150.degree. to 450.degree. C. over a solid oxide catalyst.
摘要:
C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl pentenoates are obtained from reaction mixtures which contain this and which are obtained by reacting butadiene, or a butadiene-containing hydrocarbon mixture, with carbon monoxide and a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkanol, in the presence of a cobalt carbonyl catalyst and a tertiary nitrogen base at elevated temperatures and under superatmospheric pressure by a process in which(a) the liquid reaction mixture freed from excess carbon monoxide is treated with hydrogen at elevated temperatures and under from 5 to 80 bar,(b) hydrocarbons are distilled off from the resulting liquid reaction mixture,(c) the C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl pentenoate, the alkanol and the nitrogen base are then distilled off under reduced pressure, and(d) the C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl pentenoate is obtained by fractional distillation from the distillate containing this compound, the alkanol and the tertiary nitrogen base.
摘要:
Pure monoesters of adipic acid are prepared by a process in which(a) a pentenoate is reacted with carbon monoxide and hydrogen at from 90.degree. to 140.degree. C. and under from 5 to 300 bar in the presence of a carbonyl complex of cobalt or of rhodium, and a 5-formylvalerate is separated off, and(b) the 5-formylvalerate thus obtained is oxidized with molecular oxygen, or with a gas containing this, at from 20.degree. to 100.degree. C. under from 1 to 10 bar.
摘要:
An improved process for the preparation of alkyl formylvalerates, wherein butadiene or a butadiene-containing hydrocarbon mixture is reacted, in a first stage, with carbon monoxide and alkanols in the presence of cobalt carbonyl complexes and, per mole of butadiene, from 0.5 to 2 moles of tertiary nitrogen bases having a pK.sub.a of from 3 to 11, at from 80.degree. to 150.degree. C. and from 300 to 2,000 bar, and, in a second stage, the resulting alkyl pentenoate is reacted with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of cobalt carbonyl complexes at from 100.degree. to 160.degree. C. and from 100 to 300 bar, the improvement being that tertiary nitrogen bases, excess alkanols and any unconverted hydrocarbons are distilled off from the reaction mixture obtained in the first stage, with the proviso that the reaction mixture is treated, before or during the distillation, with gases containing molecular oxygen, and the residual reaction mixture containing alkyl pentenoate and cobalt catalyst is used in the second stage.
摘要:
A process for the preparation of butanedicarboxylic acid esters, wherein(a) an aqueous cobalt salt solution is treated with excess carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of active charcoal laden with cobalt carbonyl,(b) the resulting aqueous solution of cobalt carbonyl hydride is extracted with butadiene or a butadiene containing hydrocarbon mixture and the aqueous phase is separated off,(c) the butadiene, or butadiene/hydrocarbon mixture, containing cobalt carbonyl hydride, cobalt carbonyl and butenyl-cobalt tricarbonyl, is reacted with carbon monoxide and excess C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkanol in the presence of a tertiary nitrogen base,(d) the resulting reaction mixture is freed from the tertiary nitrogen base contained therein, down to a content of from 0.1 to 0.3 mole per mole of pentenoic acid ester, and from excess hydrocarbons, and the pentenoic acid ester remaining in the reaction mixture is reacted with carbon monoxide and excess C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkanol in the presence of the cobalt carbonyl and tertiary nitrogen base contained in the reaction mixture,(e) the reaction mixture is treated with an oxidizing agent in the presence of the aqueous acid solution which has been separated off in stage (b), and the mixture is separated into an organic phase, from which butanedicarboxylic acid esters are isolated by distillation, and an aqueous phase, and(f) the aqueous phase is extracted with water-immiscible solvents, the phases are separated, and the resulting aqueous phase is freed from alkanols and tertiary nitrogen base and is recycled to stage (a).
摘要:
4-Pentenoates are prepared by isomerization of isomeric pentenoates in the presence of a catalyst, by a process in which isomeric pentenoates are treated at elevated temperatures with an acidic ion exchanger or acidic zeolite which contains a noble metal of group eight of the periodic table, and the 4-pentenoate is distilled off from the reaction mixture.
摘要:
Carboxylates which contain aldehydes, acetals and/or unsaturated compounds and are obtained by reacting an olefinically unsaturated compound with carbon monoxide and an alkanol are purified by a process wherein the said carboxylates are treated with hydrogen at elevated temperatures in the presence of an acidic ion exchanger or zeolite doped with one or more metals of group VIII of the periodic table, and the resulting low and/or high boilers are separated off by distillation.