Abstract:
Polyol-catalyst mixtures, useful in the preparation of rigid polyurethane cellular products, are prepared simultaneously by reacting a Mannich base compound, water, and an epoxide and subsequently removing the water from the reaction mixture. Also provided are new rigid polyurethane cellular products having a high content of isocyanurate linkages, superior heat distortion temperatures and improved insulating properties, which products are obtained by reacting a polyisocyanate with the aforementioned polyol-catalyst mixture.
Abstract:
A particular process is provided for the recovery of rhodium values from liquid compositions. The process comprises contacting a solubilized rhodium complex with water, a crown ether and an alkaline cesium salt in the liquid phase such that a solid comprising rhodium is formed. The process is applied with particular advantage to the recovery of solubilized rhodium values derived from processes for the production of polyhydric alcohols such as ethylene glycol, and monohydric alcohols such as methanol, by the reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of rhodium carbonyl complex catalysts in a homogeneous liquid medium. The invention also concerns cesium/crown ether salts of anionic rhodium complexes.
Abstract:
In the process of recovering molybdenum from a spent catalyst solution obtained from a crude reaction product of a molybdenum catalyzed epoxidation of an olefin with an organic hydroperoxide from which crude reaction product epoxide and an alcohol corresponding to the hydroperoxide is removed, the improvement comprises removing and recovering dissolved molybdenum as a high molybdenum content solid by subjecting the spent catalyst solution to a liquid-to-liquid extraction with an aqueous extract to form a two phase system, separating the molybdenum-rich aqueous extract and precipitating therefrom a high molybdenum content solid by heating the aqueous extract in the presence of hydrogen sulfide or a water soluble sulfide salt.
Abstract:
When saturated with boron trifluoride, certain polyhydric alcohols form adducts which catalyze reactions for which boron trifluoride is catalytic. The adduct is recovered from the reaction mixture and recycled, greatly reducing boron and fluoride values in the product and in any effluent. Examples include propylation of toluene in the presence of a recycled adduct of boron trifluoride with mannitol or sorbitol.
Abstract:
A process for recovering rhodium present in a still heel from the hydroformylation of an unsaturated hydrocarbon wherein rhodium and a triaryl phosphite ligand were used by a process comprising(a) pretreating the still heel with a compatible organic solvent or a mixture thereof, at least 5 ml of water per 100 g of still heel, oxygen gas or a precursor thereof and sufficient base to produce a pH of 2 to 7 in the reaction mixture after rhodium precipitation;(b) heating to a temperature of from 0.degree. to 80.degree. C to oxidize the triaryl phosphite ligand to the corresponding phosphate compound;(c) heating the mixture from (b) for from about 15 minutes to about 120 minutes at about 115.degree. C to about 175.degree. C to precipitate zero valent rhodium; and optionally purifying the precipitated rhodium from (c) by(d) separating the rhodium precipitate;(e) washing the rhodium precipitate with a solvent-acid solution at a pH of 3 to 4;(f) treating the rhodium precipitate with an alkaline reducing solution to reduce the trivalent rhodium impurity to zero valent rhodium;(g) quenching the rhodium with glacial acetic acid;(h) separating the rhodium;(i) washing the rhodium with an acid solution at a pH of 3 to 4;(j) drying the rhodium in an inert atmosphere at from 250.degree. to 400.degree. C; and(k) oxidizing the rhodium at a temperature of from 300.degree. to 900.degree. C to convert the rhodium to Rh.sub.2 O.sub.3.
Abstract:
METHOD FOR THE PREPARATION OF MOLYBDENUM-CONTAINING EPOXIDATION CATALYST SOLUTIONS BY HEATING MOLYBDENUM POWDER WITH A STREAM CONTAINING UNREACTED TERTIARY BUTYL HYDROPEROXIDE USED IN THE EPOXIDATION PROCESS AS THE OXIDIZING AGENT AND POLYHYDRIC COMPOUNDS OF FROM ABOUT 200 TO 300 MOLECULAR WEIGHT AND HAVING FROM 4 TO 6 HYDROXYL GROUPS PER MOLECULE, THE POLYHYDRIC COMPOUND BEING FORMED AS A BY-PRODUCT IN THE EPOXIDATION PROCESS, THE CATALYST SOLUTION PRODUCED BY SUCH METHOD AND OLEFIN EPOXIDATION PROCESSES UTILIZING SUCH CATALYST SOLUTIONS AS THE CATALYST THEREFORE.
Abstract:
This invention concerns a process for the production of vinyl esters of carboxylic acids with 3 to 20 carbon atoms, via vinylation in the presence of palladium (Pd) catalyst in combination with copper (Cu) as co-catalyst stabilized by organic salts in the presence of ethylene and air or oxygen.