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:
Un proceso para la preparación continua de alcoholes polietéricos mediante reacción de óxidos de alquileno con sustancias iniciadoras H-funcionales en presencia de catalizadores DMC, caracterizado porque comprende al comienzo del proceso a) colocar primero material de carga inicial y cataliador DMC en un reactor, b) dosificar óxido de alquileno de modo que la velocidad de dosificación que se mantiene para la operación continua del reactor se logre en un tiempo desde 100 hasta 3000 segundos, c) dosificar sustancia iniciadora durante o después del paso b) de modo que la velocidad de dosificación que se mantiene para la operación continua se logra en un tiempo de 5 hasta 500 segundos, d) después de que se haya alcanzado el nivel de llenado deseado en el reactor para la operación continua del reactor, retirar el producto continuamente del reactor mientras que al mismo tiempo se dosifica sustancia iniciadora y óxidos de alquileno en tal cantidad que el nivel de llenado en el reactor se mantieneconstante y dosificar catalizador DMC para que en el reactor se mantenga la concentración de catalizador necesaria para la operación continua del reactor.
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:
The invention relates to a process for the continuous preparation of polyether alcohols by reaction of alkylene oxides with H-functional starter substances in the presence of DMC catalysts, which comprises, at the beginning of the process a) firstly placing initial charge material and DMC catalyst in a reactor, b) metering in alkylene oxide so that the metering rate which is maintained for continuous operation of the reactor is reached in a time of from 100 to 3000 seconds, c) metering in starter substance during or after step b) so that the metering rate which is maintained for continuous operation of the reactor is reached in a time of from 5 to 500 seconds, d) after the fill level in the reactor which is desired for continuous operation of the reactor has been reached, taking product off continuously from the reactor while at the same time metering in starter substance and alkylene oxides in such an amount that the fill level in the reactor remains constant and metering in DMC catalyst so that the catalyst concentration necessary for continuous operation of the reactor is maintained in the reactor.
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.