Abstract:
A method for preparing vicinal nitronitrates by simultaneously contacting an alkene with oxygen and dinitrogen tetroxide in the presence of concentrated sulfuric acid. The nitronitrates so formed are useful as fuel additives as well as intermediates in the preparation of surfactants, fuel and lubricant additives, insecticides, fungicides, pharmaceuticals and polymers.
Abstract:
1. A process for the purification of pentaerythritol trinitrate which comprises adding water to a solution of pentaerythritol trinitrate in methylene chloride, cooling, with agitation, the mixture thus formed to a temperature between about -10* and about +10*C., and separating the purified pentaerythritol trinitrate in the form of hydrate crystals from the solution, the weight ratio of said methylene chloride being between about 0.5 and about 2 parts for each part of pentaerythritol trinitrate and the weight ratio of said water being at least 1 part for each 50 parts of pentaerythritol trinitrate.
Abstract:
THIS INVENTION RELATES TO THE RELATIVELY LOW TEMPERATURE TREATMENT OF HYDROCARBONS WITH NITRIC OIDE (NO) AND OXYGEN TO RPODUCE NITRATES, NITRITES AND KETONES AND OTHER OXIDATION PRODUCTS. THROUGH THE USE OF ALKALINE INHIBITORS SUCH AS ALKALI METAL BICARBONATES, THE PRODUCTION OF KETONES AND OTHER NON-NITROGEN CONTAINING OXIDATION PRODUCTS CAN BE MINIMIZED WHILE THE PRODUCTION OF ITRATES AND NITRIES ARE MAXIMIZED.
Abstract:
The invention comprises 1-oxo-2-nitrato-cycloalkanes, e.g., 1-oxo-2-nitratocyclohexane, which may be made by reacting a cycloalkene with nitrogen dioxide in a liquid saturated hydrocarbon reaction medium at a temperature of -15 DEG to +25 DEG C. The product is usually immiscible with the hydrocarbon reaction medium and is allowed to form a lower layer which is separated by decantation. The nitrogen dioxide may be added directly to a solution of the cycloalkene, or a solution of the cycloalkene in a hydrocarbon may be added to a solution of nitrogen dioxide in the same solvent. Preferably a solution containing 45% by volume of the cycloalkene in the hydrocarbon solvent is added to a cooled and stirred solution of 3 volumes of liquid nitrogen dioxide in 4 volumes of the solvent and a stream of air or oxygen-containing gas is bubbled through the mixture. The cycloalkenes include cyclopentene, cyclohexene, cycloheptene, methyl cyclopentenes methyl cyclohexene or methyl cycloheptene and other alkyl derivatives in which each ring contains one, two or three substituents each having 1-20 carbon atoms. Specification 974,152 is referred to.
Abstract:
A process for the continuous production of isopropyl nitrate by the continuous distillation of a mixture of easily volatile products from a boiling reaction mixture formed from nitric acid and isopropyl alcohol and into which separate streams of nitric acid and isopropyl alcohol are introduced and in which a urea concentration effective to destroy nitrous acid is maintained is characterized in that there is passed through said boiling reaction mixture undergoing continuous distillation a stream of gas chemically indifferent to it. The indifferent gas may be, e.g., air, nitrogen, carbon dioxide or steam. The isopropyl alcohol and also the nitric acid introduced into the reaction mixture may contain urea. In an example aqueous isopropyl alcohol and nitric acid, both containing urea, are fed into a reactor containing heated aqueous nitric acid also containing urea whilst air is passed through the reaction mixture. Crude isopropyl nitrate is continuously separated from the aqueous distillate. Isopropyl alcohol may be recovered from the aqueous layer of the condensate by fractional distillation after neutralizing the nitric acid present. Specification 379,312 is referred to.