Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing 1,6-hexanediol and, optionally, e-caprolactone. According to the inventive method, the carboxylic acid obtained by oxidizing cyclohexane is esterified, the esterified mixture is separated into an ester fraction and a bottom fraction, and the ester fraction is hydrated so as to obtain 1,6-hexanediol. The bottom fraction is hydrolyzed with water and is returned into the esterified mixture. Hydrolyzing the bottom fraction with water allows the method to be simplified while preventing metal oxides from being emitted and being deposited on parts of the installation, a phenomenon that occurs during reprocessing of the bottom fraction by means of reesterification.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for the production of optionally alkyl-substituted THF. The above is obtained by catalytic hydrogenation of C4-dicarboxylic acids and/or derivatives thereof, in the gas phase, using a catalyst containing 20 wt. %, preferably >30 wt %, in particular 35 to 90 wt. % of an oxidic support with acidic centres, whereby the method is carried out with a hot spot temperature of 240 to 280 DEG C and a catalytic loading of 0.01 to 1.0, preferably 0.02 to 1, in particular 0.05 to 0.5 kg reactant/l catalyst.hour.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a process for preparing polytetrahydrofuran, copolymers of tetrahydrofuran and 2-butin-1,4-diol, diesters of these polymers with C2-C20 monocarboxylic acids or monoesters of these polymers with C1-C10 monocarboxylic acids by polymerizing tetrahydrofuran in the presence of one of the following telogens, water, 1,-4-butane diol, 2-butin-1,4-diol, polytetrahydrofuran with a molecular weight of between 200 and 700 Dalton, or of a C1-C10 monocarboxylic acid or a carboxylic acid anhydride produced from C2-C20 monocarboxylic acids or mixtures of these telogens on a heterogeneous carrier catalyst which contains a catalytically active amount of an oxygenous molybdenum and/or tungsten compound on an oxidic carrier material, and which has been calcined at temperatures of between 500 °C and 1000 °C after application of the precursor compounds of the oxygenous molybdenum and/or tungsten compounds to the carrier material precursors. Before it is used as a polymerization catalyst, the catalyst is activated by treatment with a reducing agent.
Abstract:
A process for preparing 1,6-hexanediol from a carboxylic acid mixture comprising adipic acid, 6-hydroxycaproic acid and small amounts of 1,4-cyclohexanediols which is obtained as by-product in the oxidation of cyclohexane to cyclohexanone/cyclohexanol after water extraction of the reaction mixture followed by extraction with aqueous sodium hydroxide solution, by esterification of the acids and hydrogenation comprisesa) liberating the carboxylic acids from the alkaline extract by addition of a mineral acid,b) fractionating the organic phase comprising carboxylic acids to give a distillate comprising the low molecular weight monocarboxylic acids and a residue comprising adipic acid and 6-hydroxycaproic acid,c) reacting the monocarboxylic an dicarboxylic acids present in the aqueous dicarboxylic acid mixture with a low molecular weight alcohol to give the corresponding carboxylic esters,d) freeing the esterification mixture obtained of excess alcohol and low boilers in a first distillation step,e) fractionating the bottom product in a second distillation step to give an ester fraction essentially free of 1,4-cyclohexanediols and a fraction comprising at least the major part of the 1,4-cyclohexanediols,f) catalytically hydrogenating the ester fraction which is essentially free of 1,4-cyclohexanediols andg) isolating 1,6-hexanediol from the hydrogenation product in a manner known per se in a final distillation step.
Abstract:
Hexanediol is prepared by hydrogenating dialkyl adipates or mixtures which contain a dialkyl adipate as the essential component and organic halogen compounds as impurities, by a process in which, before the hydrogenation, the dialkyl adipates or the mixtures containing dialkyl adipates are passed at from 50 to 250° C. and from 1 to 100 bar over copper catalysts which have a copper content, calculated as CuO, of from 0.5 to 80% by weight, a surface area of from 5 to 1500 m2/g, a porosity of from 0.05 to 1.5 cm3/g and a copper surface area of from 0.1 to 20 m2/g, in order to remove the organic halogen compounds.
Abstract:
A process for polymerizing cyclic ethers over a heterogeneous catalyst comprises using a heterogeneous catalyst comprising one or more pillared interlayered clays (PILCs).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for catalytically hydrogenating carboxylic acids or the anhydrides or esters thereof into alcohol on heterogeneous catalysts containing hydrogenating elements of groups 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 and optionally groups 2, 14 and 15 of the periodic table of elements or consisting thereof, in a liquid phase at temperatures of 100-300 DEG C and at pressures of 10-300 bars, whereby 1-3,000 ppm of a basic alkali or earth-alkaline compound in relation to the liquid hydrogenating feed and selected from a group consisting of hydroxides, carbonates, carboxylates and alcoholates is added to the hydrogenating reaction mixture.
Abstract:
A process for preparing cyclopentanone by reacting adipic esters of the formulawhere R1 and R2 are each alkyl having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, cycloalkyl having 5 or 6 carbon atoms, aralkyl or aryl and R2 may additionally be hydrogen, in the presence of oxidic catalysts comprises reacting adipic esters of the formula I having less than 5% by weight of by-products other than adipic esters in the gas phase in the presence of water, a carrier gas anda) from 0.01 to 10% by weight of at least one metal oxide selected from the first or second main group of the periodic table or from the group of the rare earth metals on titanium dioxide or zirconium dioxide as catalyst support, orb) from 0.01 to 50% by weight of at least one metal oxide selected from the second main group of the periodic table on zink oxide as catalyst support.
Abstract:
Hexanediol is prepared by hydrogenating dialkyl adipates or mixtures which contain a dialkyl adipate as the essential component and organic halogen compounds as impurities, by a process in which, before the hydrogenation, the dialkyl adipates or the mixtures containing dialkyl adipates are passed at from 50 to 250° C. and from 1 to 100 bar over copper catalysts which have a copper content, calculated as CuO, of from 0.5 to 80% by weight, a surface area of from 5 to 1500 m2/g, a porosity of from 0.05 to 1.5 cm3/g and a copper surface area of from 0.1 to 20 m2/g, in order to remove the organic halogen compounds.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for catalytically hydrogenating carboxylic acids or the anhydrides or esters thereof into alcohol on heterogeneous catalysts containing hydrogenating elements of groups 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 and optionally groups 2, 14 and 15 of the periodic table of elements or consisting thereof, in a liquid phase at temperatures of 100-300 DEG C and at pressures of 10-300 bars, whereby 1-3,000 ppm of a basic alkali or earth-alkaline compound in relation to the liquid hydrogenating feed and selected from a group consisting of hydroxides, carbonates, carboxylates and alcoholates is added to the hydrogenating reaction mixture.