Abstract:
A process making nitroparaffins comprises a nitration reaction in the gass phase, under pressure, in a closed loop with recycling of the products that have not reacted, with continuous deconcentration purge and continuous input of hydrocarbon and nitrating agent. The process is applicable to nitration of saturated hydrocarbon less than C.sub.5, above or in mixture.
Abstract:
Nitroparaffins are made by nitration in the gaseous phase under pressure, ssibly in the presence of a gas containing oxygen. The reagent to be nitrated is a mixture containing a substantial amount of propane, the reaction temperature and pressure, the contact time and the quantitative ratios between the nitrating agent, the mixture to be nitrated and the oxygenated gas being selected so that the nitration reaction is conducted in a homogeneous gaseous phase. The process makes it possible to obtain a percentage of different nitroparaffins in response to industrial demand and further to use the cheapest raw materials at a given moment.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an improved continuous process for the preparation of mononitro-aromatic compounds which comprises (1) nitrating a reactive aromatic compound in the absence of sulphuric acid until mono-nitration is essentially complete, said nitration being carried out in 40 to 68% strength by weight nitric acid, (2) separating mechanically the nitration reaction mixture into an inorganic phase and an organic phase, (3) washing of the organic phase with water and dilute alkali solution and subsequent separation of the unconverted starting material end of the adhering water by means of rectification (4) feeding the inorganic phase and, if necessary, the wash water of the first water wash of the organic phase, to a rectification column in which (a) water is withdrawn over the top (b) optionally a fraction which has a lower nitric acid content than the feed is withdrawn from a sidestream takeoff in the rectifying section of the column and (c) a fraction which has a higher nitric acid content than the feed is taken off from the sump, (5) recycling said material withdrawn from the sump of the column to the nitration reaction vessel with the addition of fresh concentrated nitric acid and (6) withdrawing from the system an amount of the top product from the column which corresponds to the water of reaction and that which enters with the nitric acid that is added.
Abstract:
Nitrated derivatives of aromatic compounds are obtained by contacting the latter, in the presence of methylene chloride as a reaction medium, with concentrated nitric acid in the presence of concentrated sulfuric acid, and thereafter isolating the formed nitro derivatives.
Abstract:
A process for nitrating halogenated benzene derivatives, which comprizes reacting a halogenated benzene devirative with nitric acid in the liquid phase in the presence of a catalyst composed of an oxyacid of sulfur or phosphorus supported on silica-alumina and/or alumina.
Abstract:
DISCLOSED IS A NITRATION PROCESS CARRIED OUT IN CONCENTRATED NITRIC ACID AND IN WHICH THE RATE OF REACTION OF THE NITRATION PROCESS IS REDUCED BY THE ADDITION OF AN INHIBITOR, THE INHIBITOR HAVING A BASICITY GREATER THAN THAT OF THE NO30 ION AND BEING STABLE UNDER THE REATION CONDITIONS, E.G. BEING THE NITRITE OR PHOSPHATE ION. THE PROCESS IS USEFUL IN THE PARTIAL NITRATION OF COMPOUNDS HAVING A PLURALITY OF SITES SUSCEPTIBLE TO NITRATION, BEING PARTICULARLY USEFUL IN THE PRODUCTION OF 1-NITRO-ANTHRAQUINONE FROM ANTHRAQUINONE.