Abstract:
Pure acetonitrile is recovered from aqueous acetonitrile by extracting with an organic solvent which has little miscibility with water, boils higher than acetonitrile and does not form an azeotrope with acetonitrile. The portion of the extract boiling up to 76*C is distilled off. The remaining acetonitrile containing more difficulty volatile portion is freed from the residual water by addition of an entraining agent and recovering the pure acetonitrile by a fractional distillation.
Abstract:
Catalyst for the oxidation of an Alpha , Beta -unsaturated aldehyde to an Alpha , Beta -unsaturated carboxylic acid, said catalyst comprising (A) a mixture of oxides of the elements antimony, molybdenum, vanadium and tungsten and/or compounds of said elements and oxygen, and (B) at least one oxide or oxygen containing compound of the elements lead, silver, copper, tin, titanium or bismuth, said catalyst having an atomic ratio of antimony to molybdenum to vanadium to tungsten to Group (B) elements of about 1 - 60 : 12 : 0.5 - 25 : 0.1 - 12 : 0.1 - 12. Processes for the use and preparation of the catalysts are provided.
Abstract:
Alpha , Beta -unsaturated aldehydes are oxidized to Alpha , Beta -unsaturated carboxylic acids by contacting the Alpha , Beta -unsaturated aldehyde with air or oxygen and steam at 200*350*C and at atmospheric or elevated pressure in the presence of a catalyst so as to convert the aldehyde to the corresponding carboxylic acid. The catalyst comprises a mixture of oxides of the elements antimony, molybdenum, vanadium and tungsten and/or compounds of said elements and oxygen wherein the atomic ratio of the elements is as follows: 1 to 60 : 12 : 0.5 to 25 : 0.1 to 12. The catalyst is made by intimately mixing under agitation aqueous solutions or suspensions of the oxides or other compounds, for instance antimony oxide, ammonium molybdate, ammonium vanadate and ammonium tungstate, and possibly a carrier material and preferably bringing the mixture to boiling point, then separating the catalyst mass from the aqueous phase, drying it and calcining it at 225*-275*C, followed by heating in air for 15-60 minutes at 350*-475*C.
Abstract:
METHACRYLIC ACID ESTERS AND NITRIEL ARE HYDROFORMYLATED IN THE PRESENCE OF A RHODIUM CATALYST. A-FORMYL PRODUCTS PREDOMINATE WHEN REACTING BELOW 100*C. AND B-FORMYL PRODUCTS PREDOMINATE WHEN REACTING ABOVE 100*C.
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Cyanogen chloride and hydrogen chloride are produced by reacting hydrogen cyanide and chlorine, separating from the gaseous mixture on the one hand hydrogen chloride and on the other hand cyanogen chloride which in a given case can also contain chlorine, by absorption in a halohydrocarbon which has a boiling point between that of cyanogen chloride and cyanuric chloride and after distillative separation of the dissolved cyanogen chloride-chlorine mixture returning the solvent to the absorption column, the process includes A. ADDING AS THE SOLVENT FOR THE ABSORPTION A TRIFLUOROMETHYL SUBSTITUTED AROMATIC HYDROCARBON OR HALOHYDROCARBON OR A MIXTURE OF SUCH TRIFLUOROMETHYL SUBSTITUTED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS OR HALOHYDROCARBONS, B. SUBJECTING THE GAS MIXTURE CONSISTING OF CYANOGEN CHLORIDE, HYDROGEN CHLORIDE AND IN A GIVEN CASE CHLORINE AFTER LEAVING THE REACTOR FOR THE CHLORINATION OF HYDROGEN CYANIDE AND BEFORE ENTRANCE INTO THE ABSORPTION COLUMN TO A PRETREATMENT WITH THE SOLVENTS SET FORTH UNDER (A) AT A TEMPERATURE BETWEEN 80 DEG C. and the boiling point of the solvent and/or C. EITHER CONVERTING THE N-chloro-chloroformimide chloride formed in small amounts from the chlorine and cyanogen chloride in the course of the absorption and distillation into the insoluble chloroformimide chloride hydrochloride by gassing the solvent with hydrogen chloride and separating the insoluble hydrochloride in conventional manner and/or withdrawing the N-chloro-chloroformimide together with some cyanogen chloride and solvent of the previously named distillation column for separation of the cyanogen chloride by means of a side outlet, and in a second subsequently provided distillation column separating into solvent and pure N-chloro-chloroformimide chloride, whereby then the latter can be conducted both into the cyanogen chloride reactor and also, if connected to a plant for the production of cyanuric chloride, into the trimerization reactor for cyanogen chloride and/or D. SUBJECTING THE SOLVENT CONTAMINATED WITH BYPRODUCTS BY THE SUSPENSION RESULTING FROM THE PRETREATMENT AND/OR ACCUMULATING IN THE SUMP OF THE DISTILLATION COLUMN FOR THE SEPARATION OF THE CYANOGEN CHLORIDE COMPLETELY OR IN A PARTIAL STREAM TO AN AQUEOUS ALKALINE TREATMENT OR IN COMBINATION WITH A CYANURIC CHLORIDE CONDENSATION PLANT LEADING THE SUSPENSION FORMED IN THE PRETREATMENT TO THE CYANURIC CHLORIDE CONDENSATION COLUMN.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a process for producing cyanogen chloride and hydrogen chloride by reacting hydrogen cyanide and chlorine, separating from the gaseous mixture (1) hydrogen chloride and (2) either cyanogen chloride or a mixture of cyanogen chloride and chlorine by absorbing (2) in a halohydrocarbon solvent which has a boiling point between that of cyanogen chloride and cyanuric chloride, separating the dissolved (2) from the solvent by distillation of (2) in a column and returning the solvent to the absorption apparatus the improvement comprising employing as the solvent for the absorption a member selected from a trifluoromethyl aromatic hydrocarbon and trifluoromethyl haloaromatic hydrocarbon.