摘要:
MANUFACTURE OF HEXADIENE-DIOLIC ACIDS BY THE ELECTROCHEMICAL REDUCTION OF BENZENE-DIOIC ACIDS IN AN ELECTROLYTIC CELL CONTAINING DIAPHRAGMS, USING A CATHOLYTE CONTAINING THE DIOIC ACID, WATER AND A WATER-SOLUBLE ORGANIC SOLVENT, WHEREIN THE FLOW OF ELECTROLYSIS CURRENT IS PERIODICALLY INTERRUPTED AND THE CELL SHORT-CIRCUITED.
摘要:
Glyoxylic acid is prepared by a process facilitating recovery of glyoxylic acid, the process being electrolytic reduction of oxalic acid in an electrolysis cell in which A. THE CATHODE IS SOLID AND METALLIC WITH A HYDROGEN OVERVOLTAGE WHICH IS GREATER THAN THE POTENTIAL FOR THE REDUCTION OF OXALIC ACID TO GLYOXYLIC ACID, B. THE SEPARATING DIAPHRAGM IS A CATION EXCHANGE MEMBRANE, C. THE CATHOLYTE COMPRISES AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF OXALIC ACID WHICH IS FREE OF A STRONG INORGANIC ACID, D. THE CATHOLYTE MOVING IN A CLOSED PATH BY BEING PASSED INTO THE CATHODE COMPARTMENT, OVER THE SURFACE OF THE CATHODE, BEING REMOVED FROM THERE AND BEING RETURNED TO THE CATHODE COMPARTMENT, AND E. THE TEMPERATURE OF THE CATHOLYTE IS BETWEEN 0* AND 70*C.
摘要:
An oxalate salt from which oxalic acid may be produced is prepared by the cationic reduction of carbon dioxide in an electrolytic cell wherein the anode and cathode compartments are separated by a porous membrane and the catholyte is an organic solvent. Tetraethylammonium perchlorate, tetraethylammonium bromide, tetrabutylammonium perchlorate, tetrabutylammonium iodide and tetraethylammonium p-toluenesulfonate are the preferred solutes for the catholyte. Coulombic yields as high as 75 percent are obtained where the anolyte is the same electrolyte and solvent as the catholyte while yields as high as 97 percent of sodium oxalate are obtained when aqueous solutions of sodium salts are used as the anolyte.
摘要:
Aryl carboxylic acids are produced from alkyl substituted aryl compounds or partially oxidized alkyl substituted aryl compounds in an electrolytic cell with a lead containing anode and using chromium in an ionized state in mineral acid as a carrier for electrons. The process is particularly useful in the oxidation of p-toluic acid to terephthalic acid and of tetra-alkyl benzene to tetracarboxylic acids. Both terephthalic acid and tetracarboxylic acids are useful in the production of polyester resins. Trimetallic acid used in making trimellitate plasticizers for polyvinyl chloride resins may also be produced by this process.
摘要:
This process, carried out at a temperature of 0.degree. to 30.degree. C. in an electrolyzer outfit consisting of at least one anode compartment containing an anode and anolyte, comprising an aqueous acid solution, at least one cathode compartment containing a cathode and catholyte, comprising an aqueous solution of oxalic acid and, between the two compartments, at least one separator, is characterized by the fact that the anode is made of a solid conductor uniformly coated with lead dioxide.
摘要:
In the cathodic reduction of oxalic acid to glyoxylic acid production of hydrogen is reduced when the catholyte contains oxalic acid and 0.001 percent - 1 percent of an adjuvant which is a tertiary amine or quaternary ammonium derivative having more than 11 carbon atoms and, the nitrogen of which is not part of an unsaturated heterocyclic ring, or a heterocyclic tertiary amine or quaternary ammonium derivative thereof, the heterocyclic ring being unsaturated, containing a nitrogen atom and at least five carbon atoms.