Abstract:
Peroxide catalysts and/or ultraviolet light are used to catalyze the liquid phase chlorination of benzaldehyde to produce benzoyl chloride at high efficiency with only trace amounts, if any, of benzal chloride impurities.
Abstract:
A process for dehydrogenating hexahydrocoumarin or alkylated derivatives thereof is disclosed, wherein the selection of specific process conditions allows substantial amounts of coumarin or alkylated derivatives thereof to be produced along with dihydrocoumarin or alkylated derivatives thereof. The hexahydrocoumarin or derivatives are contacted with the catalyst at about the dehydrogenation temperature and then are dehydrogenated in the presence of a Group VIII metal dehydrogenation catalyst in the liquid phase at a temperature of 200*-375*C while removing hydrogen from the reaction zone, and the reaction product contains coumarin or alkylated derivatives thereof in a molar ratio of coumarin compounds:dihydrocoumarin compounds of at least 1:5. Coumarin and dihydrocoumarin, as well as alkylated derivatives thereof, are known compounds which are used in the fragance industry.
Abstract:
An improvement in a process for recovering ammonium sulfate from a contaminated, aqueous ammonium sulfate Solution containing both tarry organic and heavy contaminants (e.g., from Group VIII of the Periodic Table) is disclosed wherein a compound, or several compounds, which can form complexes together with said metal ions, and the solution is then treated with one, or several, water-soluble organic substances which, at least in combination with a saturated ammonium sulfate solution, are capable of forming a two-layer liquid phase system therewith. The resultant two layers may be separated into an aqueous phase containing purified ammmonium sulfate and an organic phase containing the organic substance, organic contaminants and metallic contaminants. The ammonium sulfate can be recovered as waterwhite, cubical crystals.
WHEREIN EACH OF R2, R2, R3, R4, R5 AND R6 EACH INDEPENDENTLY REPRESENTS HYDROGEN OR A LOWER ALKYL, PROVIDED THAT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CARBON ATOMS OF THE R1-R6 SUBMARIN COMPOUND FROM THE REACTION MIXTURE. 1. PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF COMPOUNDS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF DIHYDROCOUMARIN AND ALKYL SUBSTITUTED DERIVATIVES OF DIHYDROCOUMARIN COMPRISING HEATING TO A TEMPERATURE OF ABOUT 150 TO ABOUT 400*C. IN THE PRESENCE OF A CATALYST AMOUNT OF A DEHYDRATION CATALYST SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF PALLADIUM, A COMPOUND OF THE FORMULA:
Abstract:
1. A PHOTOOXIDATION PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF HYDROPEROXIDE DERIVATIVES OF POLYMERS HAVING A SATURATED POLYMER BACKBONE COMPOSED ONLY OF CARBON ATOMS AND HAVING C=C UNSATURATION LOCATED IN PENDANT GROUPS, SAID POLYMERS DERIVED FROM AT LEAST ONE MONO-OLEFIN AND AT LEAST ONE NON-CONJUGATED DIOLEFIN MONOMER, SAID PROCESS COMPRISING PHOTOOXIDIZING WITHOUT SUBSTANTIALLY AUTOOXDIZING SAID POLYMERS BY IRRADIATING SAID POLYMERS WITH LIGHT CAPABLE OF CATALYZING SAID REACTION AND OF A WAVELENGTHT OF 3000 TO 8000 ANGSTROMS IN THE PRESENCE OF AT LEAST A STOICHIONETRIC AMOUNT OF OXYGEN AND SENSITIZING AMOUNT OF A PHOTOSENSITIZER, WHEREIN THE CARBON ATOMS OF SAID C=C BONDS EITHER (A) CARRY TWO VICINAL CIS HYDROCARBON GROUPS WHICH DO NOT FORM PART OF ONE AND THE SAME CYCLIC SYSTEM, OR ELSE (B) CARRY AT LEAST THREE HYDROCARBON GROUPS, AND WHEREIN TRIPLET OXYGEN IS CONVERTED TO SINGLET OXYGEN.
Abstract:
An improvement in the process of preparing a latex of an organic polymer from an organic solvent solution of this polymer involving the steps of emulsifying the polymer solution with water, evaporating the organic solvent in the emulsion so as to substantially foam the emulsion components, liquifying the organic solvent vapor causing the foam to sag and the formation of an organic solvent phase and an aqueous phase containing the polymer, and finally separating and recovering the polymer containing aqueous phase from the organic phase, the improvement being introducing the polymer in an organic solvent having a water solubility of less than 0.5 cc per liter, measured at 20*C and carrying out the solvent evaporation step in the presence of at least one organic oxygen compound containing more than one carbon atom.
Abstract:
An apparatus is disclosed for the preparation of high-molecularweight polymerization products by ionogenic catalytic polymerization of lactams, in which one portion of the monomer is mixed with a catalyst and another portion with a promoter for accelerating the polymerization, after which these two components are mixed in the liquid state at the upper end of a down pipe and introduced into a heated mould in which the polymerization takes place. When charging of the mold is stopped, the down pipe runs empty of the mixture to prevent hardening of the polymer where the mixing takes place.
Abstract:
A process for the recovery of lactams from a Beckmann rearrangement mixture of lactams and sulphuric acid or sulphur trioxide, with the production of a phosphate-containing fertilizer is disclosed. The Beckmann rearrangement mixture is partially neutralized by the addition of ammonium or alkali metal hydroxide, sulphate or carbonate in an amount such that the molar ratio between the sulphate formed and the sum of the sulphate formed and the free sulphuric acid is at least 1/8:1. Thereafter, the resulting partially neutralized solution is extracted by a substantially water-immiscible, organic lactam solvent to separate lactam from the remainder of said mixture, and the remainder of said mixture after such extraction is used for the decomposition of rock phosphate with formation of gypsum and of a free phosphoric acid-containing solution. This latter solution, after removal of gypsum and neutralization of the solution with ammonia or alkali liquor is converted into a dihydrogen phosphate-containing solution from which dihydrogen phosphate, suitable for use in fertilizers, is recovered after evaporative concentration. The process provides for the ready separation of lactams from a Beckmann rearrangement reaction mixture, while at the same time producing, as a by-product, dihydrogen phosphate or a valuable dihydrogen phosphate containing fertilizer.
AND THE OTHER OF R AND R'' IS R'''''', WHEREIN ONE OF R" AND R'''''' IS
PHENYL-CO-
AND THE OTHER OF R" IS
PHENYL-CO- OR CNH(2N+1)-CO-
WHEREIN N IS A NUMBER FROM 5 TO 11, AND PROCESS FOR MAKING SAME, ARE DISCLOSED. THE USE OF THESE DIESTERS AS PLASTICIZERS IN ORGANIC POLYMERS, SUCH AS ACRYLIC POLYMERS AND VINYL POLYMERS, IS ALSO DISCLOSED.
Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR ISOMERIZING VINYL NORBORNENES INTO ETHYLIDENE NORBORNENES IS DISCLOSED, WHEREIN SAID ISOMERIZATION IS CONDUCTED IN THE PRESENCE OF GROUP II-A AND/OR GROUP II-B OF THE PERIODIC SYSTEM OXIDE CATALYST. THE CATALYST SYSTEM RESULTS IN HIGH CONVERSIONS AND CATALYST CAPACITIES. THE RESULTING ETHYLIDENE NORBORNENES ARE KNOWN PRODUCTS HAVING KNOWN USES, SUCH AS, E.G. COMMONOMERS WITH ETHYLENE AND PROPYLENE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ELASTOMERIC COPOLYMERS.