Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for separating a reaction product stemming from the reaction of EDDN or EDMN with hydrogen in the presence of THF and a catalyst that contains TETA or DETA, water and optionally organic compounds that have a higher or lower boiling point than TETA or DETA, characterized by a) adding the reaction product, once hydrogen was separated off, to a distillation column DK1 in which a THF/water azeotrope is separated off via the top, said azeotrope optionally containing other organic compounds having a lower boiling point than TETA or DETA, and in which column a bottom product which contains TETA or DETA is separated off, and ii) guiding the bottom product from stage i) to a distillation column DK2 and separating THF off via the top and removing a TETA- or DETA-containing stream at the bottom of the column, and iii) condensing the stream from stage i) removed at the top of the column DK1 and adding to the condensate or a part of the condensate an organic solvent, which is substantially immiscible with water, in such an amount that a phase decomposition takes place and separating the mixture so obtained in a phase separator, returning the arising organic phase, which contains THF and the organic solvent which is substantially immiscible with water, to the column DK1 and removing the aqueous phase.
Abstract:
Method for reacting ethylenediamine (EDA) with formaldehyde to form ethylenediamine-formaldehyde adduct (EDFA) and/or ethylenediamine-monoformaldehyde adduct (EDMFA), characterized in that the reaction of FA with EDA is carried out at a temperature ranging from 20 to 70°C.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing formamides by converting aromatic amines and a formic acid ester in the presence of a catalyst, the method being characterized in that the catalyst is a phosphoric acid or a Lewis acid metal salt.
Abstract:
A process for coproducing di- and/or polyisocyanates and glycols, comprising process stages A, B, C and E for preparing glycols and process stages A, C, D, E, F and G for preparing di- and/or polyisocyanates, which comprises accomplishing the material coupling via the separation of the reaction mixture obtained in process stage A into process stages B and C, by in process stage A, reacting an aqueous alkylene oxide with carbon dioxide to give a reaction mixture comprising alkylene carbonate, hydrolyzing a portion of the alkylene carbonate-comprising reaction mixture obtained in process stage A to glycol in process stage B, dewatering the remaining alkylene carbonate-comprising stream of the reaction mixture from process stage A in process stage C, in process stage D, synthesizing amine by hydrogenating an aromatic nitro compound or a nitrile, in process stage E, transesterifying the dewatered alkylene carbonate-comprising mixture from process stage C with a monohydroxy alcohol to give the corresponding dialkyl carbonate, obtaining glycol as a coproduct, in process stage F, reacting the dialkyl carbonate-comprising reaction mixture obtained in process stage E with the amine obtained in process stage D to a mixture comprising the corresponding mono-, di- and/or polycarbamate, which in process stage G is cleaved to obtain the corresponding di- and/or polyisocyanate.