Abstract:
Catalytic processes for preparing caprolactam, pipecolinic acid, and their derivatives, from lysine or alpha-amino-epsilon-caprolactam starting materials, and products produced thereby. A process for preparing caprolactam or a derivative thereof, the process comprising contacting a reactant comprising lysine or alpha aminocaprolactam with a catalyst and a gas comprising hydrogen gas, in the presence of a solvent. The catalyst may be provided on a support material, such as a transition metal.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the joint production of a cyclic lactam and a cyclic amine by reacting an aliphatic alpha, omega diamine in the gas phase with water and in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst.
Abstract:
This invention relates in part to processes for producing one or more substituted or unsubstituted epsilon caprolactams, e.g., epsilon caprolactam, which comprises: (a) subjecting one or more substituted or unsubstituted alkadienes to hydroxycarbonylation in the presence of a hydroxycarbonylation catalyst, e.g., a metal-organophosphorus ligand complex catalyst, and neutralization with a base to produce one or more substituted or unsubstituted pentenoic acid salts; (b) subjecting said one or more substituted or unsubstituted pentenoic acid salts to hydroformylation in the presence of a hydroformylation catalyst, e.g., a metal-organophosphorus ligand complex catalyst, to produce one or more substituted or unsubstituted formylvaleric acid salts and/or one or more substituted or unsubstituted epsilon caprolactam precursors; and (c) subjecting said one or more substituted or unsubstituted formylvaleric acid salts and/or said one or more substituted or unsubstituted epsilon caprolactam precursors to reductive amination in the presence of a reductive amination catalyst and cyclization optionally in the presence of a cyclization catalyst to produce said one or more substituted or unsubstituted epsilon caprolactams. This invention also relates in part to reaction mixtures containing one or more substituted or unsubstituted epsilon caprolactams as the principal product(s) of reaction.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing (4) a stable-quality material for a caprolactam polymer using at least one of (1) virgin caprolactam, (2) caprolactam recovered from caprolactam polymer-extracted water and (3) caprolactam obtained by depolymerizing a material to be depolymerized comprising a caprolactam polymer. SOLUTION: The method for producing the material for the caprolactam polymer including at least one of (1) virgin caprolactam, (2) caprolactam recovered from caprolactam polymer-extracted water and (3) caprolactam obtained by depolymerizing a material to be depolymerized comprising a caprolactam polymer is provided, being characterized by involving making a control of the respective ultraviolet radiation transmittance of the above caprolactam mentioned in (1) to (3) within a certain control range. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a corresponding amide or lactam from hydrocarbons having methylene groups by one step. SOLUTION: A linear or cyclic compound having the methylene group is reacted with a nitrogen oxide in the presence of an imide compound represented by formula (1) [wherein, R1 and R2 are the same as or different from each other and each a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a cycloalkyl group, a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, a carboxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group or an acyl group, or may form a double bond or an aromatic or nonaromatic ring by bonding to each other; X is an oxygen atom or a hydroxy group; The R1, R2, or the double bond or the aromatic or nonaromatic ring formed by bonding to each other may further have one or two N-substituted cyclic imide groups of formula (1)], and a halogen or a Beckmann's rearrangement catalyst to provide the objective corresponding amide or lactam.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing caprolactam from 1, 1'- peroxydicyclohexylamine without requiring a complex isolating operation in a high yield. SOLUTION: This method for producing caprolactam is to react 1, 1'- peroxydicyclohexylamine in a hydrocarbon solvent containing a salt of quaternary ammonium halide.