Abstract:
Production of very pure butanediol-1,4 by separating in column 1 crude butanediol into a fraction A containing butanediol and lower boiling components and a fraction B containing higher boiling components, separating fraction A in column 2 into an overhead and a bottoms product consisting of very pure butanediol and separating fraction B in column 3 into butanediol of lower purity and components of higher boiling point.
Abstract:
AN IMPROVED PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PURE 2-ETHYL HEXANOL (OBTAINED BY HYDROGENATION OF 2-ETHYLHEXEN-2-AL1) BY CONTINUOUS DISTILLATON IN THREE COLUMNS CONNECTED IN CASCADED FASHION THE IMPURITIES BOILING BELOW 2-ETHYL HEXANOL BEING TAKEN OVERHEAD IN THE FIRST COLUMN, PURE 2ETHYL HEXANOL BEING OVERHEAD IN THE SECOND COLUMN AND THE 2-ETHYL STILL REMAINING IN THE HIGHERBOILING IMPURITIES BEING SEPARATED IN THE THIRD COLUMN, THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISING THE USE OF A PRESSURE OF FROM 200 TO 800 MM. OF HG AT THE HEAD OF THE SECOND COLUMN AND OF A PRESSURE OF FROM 70 TO 300 MM. OF HG AT THE HEAD OF THE THIRD COLUMN, SUFFICIENT 2-ETHYL HEXANOL BEING LEFT IN THE BOTTOMS OF THE SECOND COLUMN TO MAKE THE CONCENTRATION THEREOF AT LEAST 50%. 2-ETHYL HEXANOL IS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PLASTICIZERS FOR POLYVINYL CHLORIDE.
Abstract:
Propylene polymers are produced by homopolymerization or copolymerization of propylene using a catalyst composed of an organometallic compound or metal hydride and a compound of a transition metal of Groups IV to VI of the Mendeleef Periodic System at a temperature of from - 20 DEG to + 160 DEG C. and a pressure of from atmospheric pressure to 25 atmospheres wherein the polymerization is carried out in the presence of an ethylenically unsaturated halogen compound which is a substituted alkene containing three or four carbon atoms and at least two chlorine and/or bromine atoms and having a terminal double bond, one of the halogen atoms being bound in the 1- or 2-position and another halogen atom being bound in the 3 position of the substituted alkene. Polymers produced are polypropylene, copolymers of ethylene/propylene, propylene/butene-1, and a terpolymer of ethylene / propylene / dicyclopentadiene. Unsaturated halogen compounds exemplified are 2,3 - dichloropropene - 1, 1,2 - dibromo - 3 - chlorobutene - 1 and 1,2,3 - trichloropropene-1. Also specified are 2-chloro-3,4-dibromobutene-1 and 1,2,3 - trichlorobutene - 1. Catalysts exemplified are 3TiCl3.AlCl3 with diethyl aluminium chloride, triisobutyl aluminium, butyl lithium or lithium aluminium hydride, and VOCl3 with diethyl aluminium chloride or methyl aluminium sesquichloride. Polymerization is effected in organic solvents such as petroleum ether alone or mixed with trichloroethylene, and cyclohexane. In one example, propylene is polymerized first with lithium aluminium hydride and then 3TiCl3.AlCl3 is added and the polymerization is completed. The unsaturated halogen compound acts as a molecular weight regulator. Conventional co-catalysts for increasing the stereospecificity of the catalyst may be co-employed. In a comparative example, 2-methyl-4-chlorobutene-2 is used as a regulator.