Abstract:
A METHOD IS DISCLOSED FOR PURIFYING DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE, WHICH HAS BEEN OBTAINED BY RECOVERY THEREOF IN SUBSTANTIALLY NON-AQUEOUS CONDITION FROM A PROCESS FOR SPINNING ACRYLONITRILE POLYMERS AND COPOLYMERS TO PRODUCE FIBERS AND YARNS, COMPRISING TREATING THE IMPURE DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE BY CONTACTING IT WITH TWO DIFFERENT ION-EX CHANGE RESINS WHICH ARE INSOLUBLE IN DIMETHLFORMAMIDE, ONE OF WHICH IS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP OF STRONGLY ACIDIC RESINS CONSISTING OF SULPHONATED STYRENE-DIVINYL BENZENE COPOLYMERS, AND THE OTHER OF WHICH IS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF RESINS HAVING QUATERNARY AMMONIUM GROUPS IN HYDROXIDE FORM AND OF RESINS HAVING ALIPHATIC AMINO GROUPS.