Abstract:
Trimethylolpropane is isolated from a reaction mixture which has been obtained by reaction of n-butyraldehyde with formaldehyde in the presence of a base and, if appropriate, hydrogenation of the resulting mixture by distilling the mixture by means of a dividing wall column or a distillation column with a precolumn or a distillation column with an after-column. The process has low capital costs and a low energy consumption and gives reduced formation of high-boiling by-products.
Abstract:
The invention provides novel mepiquat plant growth regulator compositions which have improved hygroscopicity and corrosion characteristics. The novel mepiquat plant growth regulator compositions of the invention can be readily prepared from technical mepiquat chlorid inter alia by electrochemical ion exchange processes or by quaternization of N-methylpiperidine with dimethylcarbonate as starting material.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for increasing yield in the production of polyvalent alcohols, especially trimethylolpropane, obtained by condensing formaldehyde with a higher aldehyde. According to the inventive method, acid treatment is carried out on a mixture (high-boiling fraction) that is obtained by reprocessing, contains derivatives of said alcohols and has a higher boiling point than the respective alcohol, and the polyvalent alcohol is recovered from the acid-treated high-boiling fraction. The inventive method is characterised in that the water content of the high-boiling fraction amounts to between 20 and 90 wt. % in relation to the entire mixture of the high-boiling fraction and water.
Abstract:
A method for removing trialkyl ammonium formate from a methylol alkanes obtained by condensation of formaldehyde with a higher aldehyde. The invention is characterized in that trialkyl ammonium formate is decomposed at a high temperature using catalysts containing at least one metal from groups 8-12 of the classification of elements in the presence of gas containing hydrogen. The method makes it possible to separate trialkyl ammonium formate according to the organic Cannizzaro method and according to the hydrogenation method.
Abstract:
In a process for the catalytic hydrogenation of a carbonyl compound or a mixture of two or more carbonyl compounds in the presence of catalyst tablets which comprise an inorganic, TiO2-containing support and, as active component, copper or a mixture of copper with at least one metal selected from the group consisting of zinc, aluminum, cerium, nobel metals and metals of transition group VIII and whose copper surface area is not more than 10 m2/g, the diameter d and/or the height h of the tablets is less than 3 mm.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for the catalytic hydrogenation of methylol alkanals of general formula (I), where R1 and R2 independently represent an additional methylol group or an alkyl group having with 1 to 22 carbon atoms, or an alkyl group with 1 to 22 C atoms, or an aryl group or aralkyl group with 6 to 33 carbon atoms, in the liquid phase on a hydrogenation catalyst. The inventive method is characterized in that a pH value ranging between 6.3 and 7.8 is adjusted in the hydrogenation feed by adding at least one tertiary amine
Abstract:
A process for removing trialkylammonium formate from methylolalkanes which have been obtained by condensation of formaldehyde with a higher aldehyde comprises decomposing trialkylammonium formate at elevated temperature in the presence of a hydrogen-containing gas over a catalyst comprising ruthenium supported on titanium dioxide. The process makes it possible to separate off the trialkylammonium formate from methylolalkanes prepared by the organic Cannizzaro process or by the hydrogenation process.
Abstract:
The invention provides a process for preparing polyester polyols of polyhydric alcohols by mono- or polyesterification of at least one carboxylic acid having at least two acid groups and/or at least one derivative of a dicarboxylic acid with polyhydric alcohols, optionally with the addition of a catalyst, while removing the water of reaction, wherein the polyhydric alcohol used has a formaldehyde acetal content of less than 500 ppm.
Abstract:
A process is disclosed for the purification, by distillation, of trimethylolpropane originating from the hydrogenation of 2,2-dimethylolbutanal, said process including the following steps: (a) reaction of n-butyraldehyde with formaldehyde in the presence of catalytic amounts of a tertiary amine, and hydrogenation of the resulting mixture to give a mixture containing trimethylolpropane; (b) separation of water, methanol, trialkylamine and/or trialkylammonium formate by distillation; (c) heating of the residue obtained in (b) under reduced pressure to a temperature at which TMP is volatile and compounds boiling above TMP are cleaved, in order to separate off, by distillation, TMP and compounds more volatile than TMP; (d) distillation of the distillate obtained in (c) in order to separate off the more volatile compounds and recover pure TMP; and (e) optional distillation of the TMP obtained in (d) in order to recover TMP with a low APHA color index. A process is also disclosed in which trialkylammonium formate is distilled under mild conditions from crude mixtures of polyhydric alcohols, predominantly trimethylolpropane.
Abstract:
In a process for preparing amines of the general formula I where R1,R2,R3,R4,R5,R6 are hydrogen, C1-C20-alkyl, C2-C20-alkenyl, C2-C20-alkynyl, C3-C20-cycloalkyl, C4-C20-alkyl-cycloalkyl, C4-C20-cycloalkyl-alkyl, aryl, C7-C20-alkylaryl or C7-C20-aralkyl, R1 and R2 are together a saturated or unsaturated divalent C3-C9-alkylene chain and R3 or R5 are C21-C200-alkyl, C21-C200-alkenyl or together a divalent C2-C12-alkylene chain, by reacting olefins of the general formula II where R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined above, with ammonia or primary or secondary amines of the general formula III where R1 and R2 are as defined above, at from 200 to 350° C. and pressures of from 100 to 300 bar in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst, the heterogeneous catalyst used is a zeolite having an NES structure.