Abstract:
A process for the preparation of N-substituted lactams of the formula I ##STR1## where Z is C.sub.2 - to C.sub.10 -alkylene, C.sub.7 - to C.sub.12 -aralkylene, phenylene or naphthylene, andR.sup.1 is C.sub.1 - to C.sub.20 -alkyl, C.sub.6 - to C.sub.10 -aryl or C.sub.7 - to C.sub.12 -aralkyl,by hydrogenating a compound of the formula II ##STR2## where W is C.sub.2 - to C.sub.10 -alkylene, C.sub.2 - to C.sub.10 -alkenylene, C.sub.7 - to C.sub.12 -aralkylene, phenylene or naphthylene, andX and Y together form an oxa or imido bridge of the formula ##STR3## or alternatively are identical or different and are hydroxyl, C.sub.1 - to C.sub.20 -alkoxy, C.sub.6 - to C.sub.10 -aryloxy or C.sub.7 - to C.sub.12 -aralkoxy, and, if X and Y are different, Y, in addition to the abovementioned meanings, may also be hydrogen,at superatmospheric pressure and at elevated temperature in the presence of a catalyst and in the presence of an amine, which comprises using a secondary and/or tertiary amine of the formula IIINH.sub.n R.sub.3-n .sup.1where R.sup.1 is as defined above and n is 0 or 1, or a mixture of a secondary and/or teritary amine of this type with a primary amine of the formula IVR.sup.1 --NH.sub.2 (IV)as the starting material, and carrying out the reaction with addition of water and/or ammonia.
Abstract:
Caprolactam can be produced with an economical advantage without formation of by-products in a high yield by subjecting adipic acid and adiponitrile to interchange reaction at an elevated temperature, adding an alcohol directly to the interchange reaction mixture without isolating the resulting cyanovaleric acid to esterify the cyanovaleric acid with said alcohol into a cyanovaleric ester, reducing the cyanovaleric ester with a catalyst into an aminocaproic ester, heating the aminocaproic ester in a polyhydric alcohol having a higher boiling point than that of caprolactam to convert the ester into caprolactam, isolating the caprolactam by distillation and recycling the liquid distillation residue to the system for heating said polyhydric alcohol and said aminocaproic ester.
Abstract:
A process for purifying caprolactam, which has been obtained by a Beckmann rearrangement, by extracting crude caprolactam with solvents, distilling the extract in the presence of alkali, and isolating pure caprolactam, wherein, in a first stage, caprolactam is distilled from the alkaline distillation residue at a bottom temperature of 130.degree.-160.degree. C., and is recycled to the distillation stage, the residue thus obtained is distilled, in a second stage, at a bottom temperature of 140.degree.-180.degree. C., and the distillate is treated with strongly acidic agents in a third stage and is then recycled to the extraction stage.
Abstract:
A process for preparing an azetidinone of the formula: ##STR1## which comprises reacting a C-unsubstituted methyleneamine of the formula: ##STR2## with R.sup.2 --CH.sub.2 COOH, its acid halide or anhydride, in the presence of boron trihalide and an organic base, wherein R.sup.1 is an organic residue bearing a carboxy group or its derivative and R.sup.2 is azido, substituted amino, halogen, acyloxy, alkoxy, aryloxy or aralkoxy.
Abstract:
New physiologically active N-substituted lactams having the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6 and R.sub.7, represent independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl radical containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a phenyl group, R.sub.8 is a hydrogen atom or R.sub.8 and R.sub.3 together form the ethylene or trimethylene radical, and n is 3, 4 or 5, processes for the preparation thereof and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a process of catalytically converting nitrobenzene to 2-amino-3H-azepines by the reaction of the nitrobenzene with trisaminophosphine and an amine of the formula HNR'.sub.2, where R' is lower alkyl containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms.In addition, this invention concerns the catalytic hydrogenation of 2-amino-3H-azepine to epsilon caprolactam.
Abstract:
Novel azetidine derivatives of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an acylamido group, R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## wherein R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are individually selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, lower alkyl and lower alkenyl, n is 2 or 3 and -- in the case when formula IIB is a phenyl - this group may carry one to four substituents selected from the group consisting of halogen, lower alkyl, lower alkenyl and phenyl, and R.sub.3 is lower alkyl optionally substituted with 1 or 2 phenyls which phenyl groups may be substituted with nitro and the dotted lines of formula IIB indicate the optional presence of double bonds and a process for their preparation and process for the preparation of cephalosporanic acid derivatives using the azetidines of formula I as intermediates.
Abstract:
Nitrogen-containing derivatives of alkane-.alpha.,.omega.-dioic acids having nitrogen bound to the 12 carbon atom e.g. .omega.cyano-alkanoic acids and .omega.-carbamoylalkanoic acids, are produced by heating a compound of formula
Where X and X'' are divalent aliphatic radicals which may be the same or different.
Abstract:
1. THE METHOD OF PREPARING, AS END PRODUCTS, CAPROLACTAM AND DICYCLOHEXYL KETONE WHEREIN AN ALKALI METAL SALT OF E-CYCLOHEXYL AMIDOCAPROIC ACID IS PYROLYZED BY HEATING TO A TEMPERATURE IN THE RANGE OF 300-500*C. AND A DISTILLATE CONTAINING SAID END PRODUCTS IS RECOVERED.
Abstract:
CAPROLACTAM AND CYCLOHEXANONE MAY BE PREPARED IN ONE STEP BY REACTING CYCLOHEXANOL WITH NH3 AND O2 IN THE PRESENCE OF LITHIUM CHLORIDE AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES.