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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an industrial preparation process of a polycarbonate diol, in which a less-colored high-quality polycarbonate diol having a hydroxy group on its molecular terminal is obtained by reacting dimethyl carbonate with an aliphatic dihydroxy compound. SOLUTION: A polycarbonate diol prepolymer whose terminal alkyl group ratio in mol is not more than 5% is obtained by reacting dimethyl carbonate with an aliphatic dihydroxy compound in the presence of a catalyst, keeping the reacting mol ratio r to be 1.31-1.58 by stripping the mixture of methanol and dimethyl carbonate. A polycarbonate diol is obtained by further carrying out a polycondensation reaction of the prepolymer in the presence of a catalyst the aliphatic dihydroxy compound.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a carboxylic acid aryl ester at a low temperature in a short time in a high yield without causing the corrosion of a reactor by the ready purification of the objective substance, by transesterifying a carboxylic acid with a diaryl oxalate. SOLUTION: (A) A carboxylic acid (except oxalic acid) is transesterified with (B) a diaryl oxalate. An aliphatic monocarboxylic acid such as acetic acid or the like, an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid such as malonic acid or the like, an aromatic monocarboxylic acid such as benzoic acid or the like, an aromatic dicarboxylic acid such as phtalic acid or the like is used as the component A. Diphenyl oxalate or the like is used as the component B. In the reaction, 0.3-3 equivalents of the component B is used based on 1 equivalent of the component A, a transesterification catalyst such as Li2 O3 or the like is used and the reaction is carried out at temperature of 100-300 deg.C for about 1-10 hours.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a highly active catalyst for de-carbonylation reaction capable of producing a carboxylic acid ester with high selectivity at a high yield even at a low temp. by forming a catalyst from an organic phosphorous compound composed of 3-valent or 5-valent phosphorous atom and having carbon- phosphorous bond. SOLUTION: This catalyst is constituted of the organic phosphorus compound composed of 3-valent or 5-valent phosphorous atom and having at least one carbon-phosphorous bond. Particularly, an organic phosphorus compound composed of 3-valent or 5-valent phosphorus atom and having >=3 carbon- phosphorous bonds is preferable and as the organic phosphorous compound, for example, a phosphonium salt, phosphine, phosphine dihalide and phosphine oxide are cited. The catalyst is remarkably useful for the catalyst for de- carbonylating an α-carbonyl carboxylic acid ester, particularly a haloglyoxylic acid aryl ester, an aryl glyoxylic acid aryl ester, a heterocyclic glyoxylic aryl ester, an oxalic diaryl ester or the like.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To produce a diaryl carbonate in a high selectivity over a long period by the decarbonylation reaction of a diaryl oxalate in the presence of an organic phosphonium salt while recovering and reusing the organic phosphonium salt. SOLUTION: This process for the production of a diaryl carbonate comprises the 1st step to perform the decarbonylation reaction of a diaryl oxalate in the presence of an organic phosphonium salt, the 2nd step to recover the produced diaryl carbonate from the reaction liquid, the 3rd step to perform the decarbonylation reaction of diaryl oxalate by adding a halogen compound in the presence of a residue containing the organic phosphonium salt, the 4th step to extract the residue containing the organic phosphonium salt from the reaction system and recover the organic phosphonium salt by extracting with water, and the 5th step to reuse the recovered organic phosphonium salt in the 3rd step.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To directly and easily obtain the subject compound useful as a catalyst for various kinds of reactions by cooling hydrochloric acid containing a phosphonium bromide, separating the deposited phosphonium hydrogen dichloride and subsequently heating the separated compound to remove hydrogen chloride. SOLUTION: This method for producing a phosphonium chloride comprises adding ion-exchanged water and 36wt.% hydrochloric acid to a phosphonium bromide of the formula (R -R are each an alkyl, an aralkyl, an aryl) (e.g. tetraphenylphoshonium bromide), heating the mixture at 90 deg.C with stirring, cooling the obtained solution to 20 deg.C with stirring, subjecting the deposited phosphonium hydrogen dichloride to a suction filtration treatment, washing the separated deposited compound, drying the washed compound at 60 deg.C under vacuum, heating the obtained phosphonium hydrogen dichloride in a U-shaped tub, etc., under a vacuum of 1mmHg at 200 deg.C for 2hr, and further heating the compound in the gas flow of argon at 220 deg.C for 2,5hr to remove hydrogen chloride. Thus, the objective phosphonium chloride can directly and easily be obtained.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flowable polyalkylene carbonate diol improved in physical properties such as high crystallinity, a high melting point and melt viscosity; and a method for producing a flowable polyalkylene carbonate diol capable of synthesizing the same with a desired composition ratio in a simple method without being affected by the reaction speed during the production.SOLUTION: The flowable polyalkylene carbonate diol comprises a molecular structure of repetition units represented by formulas (A) and (B). In formula (A), (a) denotes the number of the repetition unit of a heptamethylene carbonate group, and in formula (B), n denotes the number of repetition units of a methylene group, which is an integer of 2-12 except 7, and b denotes the number of repetition units of an alkylene carbonate group having n pieces of the methylene group.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new polycarbonate having oxetane on molecular ends, and to provide a simple method for producing the same.SOLUTION: The invention provides the polycarbonate represented by formula (1), having oxetane on the molecular ends. Ris 1-4C linear or branched alkyl, in general formula (1). Rrepresents 3-12C linear or branched alkylene, wherein the alkylene may be an unsaturated hydrocarbon, aromatic hydrocarbon, alicyclic hydrocarbon or including a hetero atom. (n) is a real number of 1-30 which represents the average repeating number of the alkylene carbonate structure. Each Rmay be different when (n) exceeds 1.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an industrially suitable method of production, obtaining an aromatic methyl alcohol compound having an oxyl group from an aromatic methyl halide compound having the oxyl group by a simple operation in a good yield. SOLUTION: This method for producing the aromatic methyl alcohol compound having the oxyl group is characterized by performing the reaction of the aromatic methyl halide compound having the oxyl group with water in the presence of an alkali compound. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To industrially advantageously obtain a dialkyl carbonate useful as a raw material for producing medicine, agrochemical, etc., by decarbonylating a dialkyl oxalate in the presence of an organic phosphorus compound under heating. SOLUTION: A dialkyl oxalate (preferably dimethyl oxalate) and 0.001-50 mol% based on the dialkyl oxalate of an organic phosphorus compound having a trivalent or pentavalent phosphorus atom (containing at least one carbon- phosphorus bond, preferably an organic phosphonium salt such as tetramethylphosphonium chloride, tetraaryl phosphonium salt such as tetraphenylphosphonium chloride, etc.) are put in a reactor and heated optionally in a solvent such as diphenyl ether at 100-450 deg.C so that a liquid-phase reaction is carried out in a batch method or a continuous method to give the objective compound in a high yield.