Abstract:
The oxidation of metal-complexed cyanide under acid conditions using oxygen as the oxidizing agent can be performed effectively with certain metal chelates as catalysts. Especially effective chelates are metal phthalocyanines, particularly where the metal is vanadium or a member of the iron group metals. The oxidation can be effected homogeneously using water soluble metal chelates, or can be performed heterogeneously, especially in a continuous fashion using a packed bed reactor, by using suitable water-insoluble metal chelates, especially when supported on appropriate carriers.
Abstract:
A continuous method of preparing N-monoalkyl alkylenediamines, uncontaminated by the N,N'-dialkyl alkylenediamine, is based on the observation that the disubstituted material selectively precipitates from aqueous media. A scheme is presented where an aqueous alkylenediamine is reacted with a suitable carbonyl component and hydrogen over a supported platinum catalyst. Where the alkylenediamine forms an azeotrope with water it can be conveniently recycled to the reactor.
Abstract:
Rare earth pillared clays, and especially cerium and lanthanum aluminum chlorohydrite pillared clays, are quite effective catalysts in the alkylation of diaryl amines at temperatures in the range of 100.degree.-225.degree. C. The catalysts effect alkylation using olefins as the alkylating agent with high conversion and with minimal cracking of either the olefin or the alkylated product. Catalysts may be regenerated by heating in air at temperatures of at least about 550.degree.-600.degree. C. Water in small amounts also modifies the reaction to further reduce cracking although it also reduces the activity of the catalyst.
Abstract:
Acylatable aromatic hydrocarbons may be acylated with a broad variety of carboxylic acid anhydrides in the presence of solid acid catalysts which replace conventional Friedel-Crafts catalysts to afford aromatic ketones in good yield and with high selectivity. Both aromatic and aliphatic carboxylic acid anhydrides may be used as the acylating agent, and solid acid catalysts such as the sulfated oxides of zirconia, pillared clays, and rare earth-exchanged pillared clays are found to be quite effective in the practice of this invention. The process may be practiced in a continuous mode, especially where excess aromatic compound is used as a reactant and is recycled from the product effluent to the reaction zone containing a bed of catalyst.
Abstract:
Alkyl aryl ethers may be prepared in good yields by reacting a phenol with an olefin in the presence of an unmodified cationic exchange resin bearing sulfonic acid groups at low temperature. In another variation the ethers may be prepared by using as a catalyst the aforementioned resin where from about 10 to about 90 percent of the sulfonic acid groups are in the form of their alkali metal salts and the reaction temperature is greater than about 75.degree. C.
Abstract:
C-Nitrosodiarylamines may be prepared in a single stage from diarylamines by adding alcoholic solutions of a hydrogen halide below the surface of a stirred mixture of the diphenylamine in an organic liquid containing water. The amount of water contained is critical, and amounts from about 1 to about 3 g per mole of diarylamine are preferred.