Abstract:
It is the discovery of the present invention to provide an improved method of rectifying the crude production stream obtained by the vapor phase nitration of hydrocarbons by subjecting the absorber bottom mixture to extractive distillation with water.
Abstract:
A process for reducing the amount of ortho nitro aromatic keto compounds in a mixture containing the same which comprises contacting such mixture with oleum.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for obtaining .alpha.,.alpha.'-dinitro-anthraquinones of high purity from crude mixtures obtained from the dinitration of anthraquinone. Such a mixture is placed in contact with an ester having a boiling point greater than 120.degree. C. derived from a mono- or di-carboxylic acid or phosphoric acid, at a temperature between 20.degree. and 200.degree. C. or more, then, after possible cooling, the insoluble material consisting essentially of the .alpha.,.alpha.'-dinitro-anthraquinones is separated.
Abstract:
An adsorptive separation process for separating ortho or para-nitrotoluene from a feed mixture comprising the isomer to be separated and at least one other isomer of nitrotoluene, or for separating ortho and para-nitrotoluene from a mixture of all three isomers of nitrotoluene, which process comprises contacting the feed mixture with an adsorbent comprising a type X or type Y zeolite, whichever is appropriate, containing at the exchangeable cationic sites the appropriate cations, selectively adsorbing substantially all of the nitrotoluene to be separated to the substantial exclusion of the remaining isomers and thereafter recovering high-purity ortho, para or ortho and para isomers. A desorption step may be used to desorb the adsorbed isomers.
Abstract:
A process has been developed for isolating aromatic dinitro compounds by using nitric acid in specified concentrations in different portions of a rectifying column and separating off the mixture of aromatic dinitro compounds from the sump of the rectifying column.
Abstract:
An adsorptive separation process for separating ortho-chloronitrobenzene from a feed mixture comprising ortho-chloronitrobenzene and at least one other isomer of chloronitrobenzene, which process comprises contacting the feed mixture with an adsorbent comprising a type X or type Y zeolite containing at the exchangeable cationic sites one or more cations selected from the group consisting of Groups IA, IIA and the transition metals of the Periodic Table of Elements, selectively adsorbing substantially all of the said ortho-chloronitrobenzene to the substantial exclusion of the remaining isomers and thereafter recovering high-purity ortho-chloronitrobenzene. A desorption step may be used to desorb the adsorbed ortho-chloronitrobenzene.
Abstract:
An adsorptive separation process for separating the ortho, meta and para isomers of chloronitrobenzene from a feed mixture comprising said isomers, which process comprises contacting the feed mixture in a first adsorption stage with a certain selected adsorbent, selectively adsorbing therein substantially all of the ortho-chloronitrobenzene to the substantial exclusion of the other isomers and thereafter recovering high-purity orthochloronitrobenzene, passing the unadsorbed isomers to a second adsorption stage where they are contacted with another selected adsorbent, selectively adsorbing therein substantially all of one of the isomers and thereafter recovering in high purity that isomer as well as the isomer unadsorbed in the second stage. A desorption step may be used to desorb the adsorbed isomers in each stage.
Abstract:
This invention relates to the treatment of an isomeric mixture of chloronitrobenzenes to provide a product higher in meta-chloronitrobenzene content, and lower in ortho-chloronitrobenzene and para-chloronitrobenzene content. In particular, a liquid mixtuure of ortho-, meta-, and para-chloronitrobenzene isomers containing a major amount of the meta isomer is solidified by dispersing the isomeric mixture in a partially miscible solvent at temperatures below the melting point of meta-chloronitrobenzene, the solvent and its temperature being selected so that the chloronitrobenzene isomers are sparingly soluble in the solvent. More particularly, a liquid isomeric mixture of ortho-, meta- and para-chloronitrobenzene containing a major amount of meta-chloronitrobenzene is dispersed in a lower alkylene glycol solvent that is at a temperature below the melting point of meta-chloronitrobenzene. A finely divided solid is collected, for example, by filtration, to provide a product enriched in meta-chloronitrobenzene.