Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a catalyst which is suitable for the reaction of a carboxylic ester with an alkylene oxide and enables to produce a desired alkylpolyalkylene glycol carboxylate under a mild reaction condition without any undesirable byproduct formed. SOLUTION: The alkylpolyalkylene glycol carboxylate can be produced by a method comprising a process for reacting a carboxylic ester with an alkylene oxide in the presence of a multimetal cyanide compound as a catalyst represented by formula (I): M 2 M a [M (CN)b (A)c ]d fM g Xn mM p Yq h(H2 O)eLkP, for example, by formula (II): M Fe[Fe(CN)6 ]nH2 O [wherein M is a potassium ion (K ) or an ammonium ion (NH4 )]; and can be used as a raw material for a concrete fluidizing polymer.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing polyether alcohols by adding alkylene oxides to H-functional starting substances by means of multi-metal cyanide catalysts. The inventive method is characterized in that the multi-metal cyanide catalysts are microporous and have a specific surface of greater than 100 m /g defined by nitrogen adsorption at 77K.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing DMC catalysts by reacting cyanometallate compounds, preferably cyanometallate salts, in particular, alkali or alkaline earth salts, with metal salts, wherein the inventive method is characterised in that it is carried out in the presence of a Bronsted acid.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a continuous method for producing DMC catalysts, which is characterized in that the solutions of a metal salt and a hexacyanometallate compound and optionally organic ligands and/or organic additives are continuously fed to a continuous reactor and the suspension of the DMC compound formed is continuously removed from the reactor.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for the alkoxylation of organic compounds comprising the reaction of at least one organic compound with at least onealkoxylating agent in the presence of a catalyst system, wherein a polyetheralcohol is obtained. The catalyst system comprises a metallo organic framework mate-rial comprising pores and at least one metal ion and at least one at least bidentate organic compound, which is coordinately bounded to said metal ion. Furthermore it relates to polyurethanes or polyurethane foams, which are obtainable by using a prepared polyether alcohol as a starting material.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a process for producing low-emission flexible polyurethane foams having a reduced odor and reduced fogging by reacting a) polyisocyanates with b) compounds having at least two hydrogen atoms which are reactive toward isocyanate groups, c) blowing agents wherein polyether alcohols which have been prepared by addition of alkylene oxides onto compounds derived from renewable raw materials using DMC catalysts are used as compounds b) having at least two hydrogen atoms which are reactive toward isocyanate groups.
Abstract:
Process for preparing double metal cyanide catalysts of the general formula (I) M2a[M1(CN)rXt]b (I) where M2 is preferably Co(III) or Fe(III), and M1 is preferably Zn(II), X is a group other than cyanide which forms a coordinate bond to M1 and is selected from the group consisting of carbonyl, cyanate, isocyanate, nitrile, thiocyanate and nitrosyl, a, b, r, t are integers which are selected so that the compound is electrically neutral, by reacting a) a cyanometallic acid of the general formula (II) Hw[M1(CN)r(X)t] where M1 and X are as defined above, r and t are as defined above and w is selected so that the compound is electrically neutral, with b) a readily protolyzable metal compound (IIIa) M2Rw and/or (IIIb) M2RuYv, where M2 is as defined above, the groups R are identical or different and are each the anion of a very weak protic acid having a pKa of >=20, and Y is the anion of an inorganic mineral acid or a moderately strong to strong organic acid having a pKa of from -10 to +10, w corresponds to the valence of M2, u+v corresponds to the valence of M2, with u and v each being at least 1, with the reaction being carried out in a nonaqueous, aprotic solvent.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for reacting epoxides with an initiator compound in the presence of a double metal cyanide compound as a catalyst, said process having a shortened induction period, and the double metal cyanide compound being activated by adding the epoxide to a mixture of double metal cyanide compound and initiator compound at an internal reactor pressure of less than 1 bar, and also to the polyethers themselves obtainable by such a process.