Abstract:
A process for the preparation and recovery of m,m'-dinitrobenzophenone and which comprises reacting benzophenone with nitric acid in oleum; adjusting the reaction product to a water content from 12 to 30 weight percent; and extracting the m,m'-dinitrobenzophenone with a chlorinated hydrocarbon solvent.
Abstract:
A process is disclosed for separating nitrated phenolic compounds from other nitrated and unnitrated phenolics by treating a mixture of the phenolics with a metal halide salt. The metal halide salt preferentially forms a complex with one of the phenolics over other related phenolics in the mixture. The preferentially-formed complex of one of the phenolics may then be isolated from the mixture and the complex decomposed to provide a product substantially enriched in, or substantially entirely composed of, one phenolic. The process is particularly suitable for resolving a mixture comprising phenol or cresol from their ortho-nitrated derivatives, or a mixture of two isomeric nitrated phenols or cresols or a mixture of mono-and dinitrated phenols or cresols.
Abstract:
Mixtures of para-nitrochlorobenzene crystals and a liquid, ordinarily comprising the mother liquor of the crystals are continuously separated in one or more cylindrical presses in at least two stages. Reduction of the interstitial space causes the mother liquor to be forced out of the drainage aperatures thus purifying the crystals.
Abstract:
A one pot process for the preparation of trinitrophloroglucinol by the addition of a nitric acid and sulfuric acid mixture to phloroglucinol in sulfuric acid where the nitric acid and phloroglucinol are present in stoichiometric amounts.
Abstract:
A process for the separation of a dissolved solid from an aqueous solution containing it, comprising the steps of (a) adding thereto an organic liquid which is a poor solvent for the dissolved solid and which forms an azeotrope with water, (b) subjecting the mixture to azeotropic distillation to separate at least a major portion of the water, (c) cooling the mixture thereby causing substantially complete separation of the dissolved solids, and (d) separating same from the mother liquor.
Abstract:
Nitrosation agent(s), contained as by-products in nitrated aromatic compounds after nitration with nitric acid or nitration acid, are removed by a water treatment, wherein the water is distilled off at least partially in vapor form, advantageously under reduced pressure. In the further reaction of the nitrocompounds treated in this manner undesired nitrosamines are practically not formed. The process is especially suitable for the manufacture of 4-di-n-propylamino-3,5-dinitrobenzotrifluoride (Trifluralin), a valuable herbicide, substantially free from nitrosamine(s).
Abstract:
3-Nitrobenzoic acid is recovered from a mixture of 2-, 3- and 4-nitrobenzoic acids by basifying to a pH of 8-12 and then adding an acid to reduce the pH to 1.5-3.5 to precipitate the desired compound.
Abstract:
A process has been invented for the isolation of 1,6- and 1,7-dinitroanthraquinone by treating mixtures containing these isomers with nitrobenzene.
Abstract:
A mixture of polycyclic aromatic polycarboxylic acids that is substantially insoluble in acetone and substantially insoluble in water and a process for preparing the mixture.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a novel process for producing the threo- and erythro-isomers of 1-phenyl-2-nitro-1,3-propanediol through the aldol-type alkaline condensation of benzaldehyde and nitroethanol, wherein the reaction mixture is acidified and, if desired, the isomers are separated from the obtained isomer mixture and the obtained isomers are transformed into each other through epimerization, characterized in that the condensation and, if desired, also the epimerization are carried out in the presence of catalytical amounts of an alkaline hydroxide.The process according to the invention makes it possible to produce 1-phenyl-2-nitro-1,3-propanediol, an intermediate of the antibiotic chloramphenicol, in high yields, and in an extremely advantageous way which can be carried out simply and economically even on an industrial scale.