Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR TRANSFORMING AN ALKYL AMINO ACID SALT OF A MINERAL ACID INTO THE CORRESPONDING N-ACYL AMINO ALKANOIC ACID COMPRISING NEUTRALIZING THE MINERAL ACID PORTION. THE AMMONIUM SALT IS SEPARATED OUT BY ADDING ALKADROXIDE, SEPARATING OUT THE THEREBY FORMED AMMONIUM SALT OF THE MINERAL ACID, AND ACYLATING THE REMAINING SOLUTION. THE AMMONIUM SALT IS SEPARATED OUT BY ADDING ALKANOC ACID TO THE NEUTRALIZED SOLUTION.
Abstract:
1. A PROCESS FOR THE CATALYTIC REDUCTION OF 2-OXIMINO-6NITROHEXANAMIDE TO PRODUCE AN ALKANOIC ACID SALT OF D,L-LYSINE AMIDE, COMPRISING: SUBJECTING 2-OXIMINO-6NITROHEXANZMIDE, AN ALKANOIC ACID CONTAINING 1-5 CARBON ATOMS AND HYDROGEN IN THE PRESENCE OF A RHODIUM METAL HYDROGENATION CATALYST, TO SUPERATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE, AT A TEMPERATURE ABOVE 15* C. TO CONVERT THE 2-OXIMINO-6NITROHEXANAMIDE TO SAID ALKANOIC ACID SALT OF D,L-LYSINE AMIDE.
Abstract:
The nitrosation of Alpha -nitrocycloalkanones with alkyl nitrites, nitrogen oxides or nitrosyl halides is advantageously carried out utilizing liquid sulfur dioxide as a reaction solvent. Most advantageously, a strong acid catalyst is also present.
Abstract:
2-NITRO-6-OXIMINO CYCLOHEXANONE CAN BE REACTED WITH ANHYDROUS AMMONIA IN A SOLVENT SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF C1 TO C4 ALKANOLS AND C4 TO C8 ALIPHATIC AND ALICYCLIC MONO- OR DI-ETHERS TO AFFORD 2-OXIMINO-6NITRO-CAPROMIDE, A PRECURSOR OF LYSINE.
Abstract:
L-LYSINEAMIDE DIHYDROCHLORIDE CAN BE ISOLATED BY PREPARING THE INTERMEDIATE D- AND L-LYSINEAMIDE-L-PYRROLIDONE CARBOXYLATE HYDROCHLORIDE SALTS WHICH CAN BE SEPARATED FROM ALKANOL SOLUTION BY FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION. THE L-LYSINEAMIDE PYRROLIDONE CARBOXYLATE HYDROCHLORIDE SALT IS THEN TREATED WITH EXCESS HYDROGEN CHLORIDE TO FORM THE DESIRED L-LYSINEAMIDE DIHYDROCHLORIDE.
Abstract:
WHEREIN Q is phosphorous, arsenic or antimony, and wherein R1, R2, R3, and R4 are independently hydrogen, C1 to C4 alkyl, C1 to C4 alkoxy or C1 to C6 dialkyl amino, and wherein n is 10 to 500, are potent catalysts for the hydrogenation of ethylenic or acetylenic double bonds.
Complexes of rhodium, ruthenium, platinum, palladium, osmium, or iridium with polymers of the structure:
Abstract:
1. IN A METHOD FOR THE RACEMIZATION OF OPTICALLY ACTIVE MATERIAL OF THE GROUP CONSISTING OF A-AMINOCAPROLACTAM AND LYSINE AMIDE AND MIXTURES THEREOF BY HEATING IN THE PRESENCE OF A STRONG BASE, THE IMPROVEMENT WHICH COMPRISES EMPLOYING ANHYDROUS AMMONIA AS SOLVENT AND HEATING SAID MATERIAL IN SOLUTION THEREIN AT CONCENTRATION OF AT LEAST 10 PERCENT BY WEIGHT.
Abstract:
2-OXIMINO-6-NITRO HEXANAMIDE IS SUITABLY PURIFIED BY RECRYSTALLIZATION FROM A SOLVENT SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF (A) C1 to C3 dialkyl ethers of ethylene glycol, and (b) C2 to C5 halogenated alkanes having a Cl/C atom ratio ranging from about 1:1 to 1:3.
Abstract:
A-NITRO-W-OXIMINO CYCLOALKANONES ARE EFFECTIVE FUNGICIDES AND FUNGISTATS. IN PARTICULAR, THEY ARE EFFECTIVE AGAINST RUST TYPE FUNGI. THE PREFERRED COMPOUND IS 2NITRO-6-OXIMINO CYCLOHEXANONE.
Abstract:
A method of cleaving ketones at a carbon-carbon bond adjacent to the ketonic carbon to produce a terminal carboxylic ester and a terminal oxime group, which comprises, nitrosating the ketone in the presence of a polar aprotic solvent and an alcohol. The products are useful intermediates, particularly as intermediates in the production of polyamides, and as solvents. A method of synthesizing Epsilon -caprolactam from the intermediate omega hydroximino hexanoate, produced by cleaving cyclohexanone, hydrogenating the intermediate omega -aminohexanoate ester and cyclizing the corresponding ester thus formed, to Epsilon caprolactam.