Abstract:
Substituted benzophenones of the formula ##STR1## in which Ph represents unsubstituted or substituted phenyl and R represents free, esterified or amidated carboxy, have anti-inflammatory and/or analgesic properties and can be used as active ingredients in medicaments. They are manufactured, for example, as follows:a compound or a mixture of compounds of the formula ##STR2## in which X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 together represent a group of the formula --C(.dbd.O)--O that is bonded via the carbonyl group to the radical Ph and X.sub.3 represents hydrogen, or one of the radicals X.sub.1 and X.sub.3 represents a group of the formula --C(.dbd.O)--Z, the other represents hydrogen and X.sub.2 represents a group R'O-- in which R' represents hydrogen or a hydroxy-protecting group, is subjected to acid treatment and the primary product is decomposed solvolytically.
Abstract:
A process for selectively forming nitroalkanes and nitroaromatics by contacting, at elevated temperature and pressure and in a homogeneous gas phase, an organic carboxylic acid having from two to ten carbon atoms with NO.sub.2 alone or in the presence of oxygen and/or water.
Abstract:
A process is disclosed for preparing a diester of oxalic acid by contacting carbon monoxide and an ester of nitrous acid in the vapor state under a pressure in the presence of a supported palladium monolith catalyst.
Abstract:
A photopolymerizable coating composition comprising(1) a nongaseous, ethylenically unsaturated, polymerizable compound,(2) a specified acidic o-nitroaromatic compound, and(3) an organic, radiation-sensitive, free-radical generating system which is useful for making a positive or negative polymeric image on a substrate.
Abstract:
A process for preparing dinitrobenzophenones which comprises reacting benzene with ethylene in the presence of an alkylation catalyst to obtain an alkylation product containing unreacted benzene, ethylbenzene, polyethylbenzenes, 1,1-diphenylethane and heavier products, separating benzene, ethylbenzene and polyethylbenzenes from said alkylation product, recovering from the remainder of said alkylation product a fraction whose boiling points fall within the temperature range of about 260.degree. to about 290.degree. C., reacting said fraction with nitric acid at a temperature within the range of about 130.degree. to about 210.degree. C., wherein the molar ratio of nitric acid to said fraction is in the range of about 3:1 to about 8:1, and thereafter reacting the total resulting reaction product with nitric acid in oleum to obtain a nitration product predominating in dinitrobenzophenones.
Abstract:
Ortho-nitrobenzaldehyde, a well known compound suitable as an indicator and as an intermediate for many organic syntheses including production of pharmaceuticals, is obtained by contacting a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 lower alkyl ester of o-nitrophenyl pyruvic acid in the form of its enolate, i.e. the enol salt or enol ester, with hydrogen peroxide; the enol salt can be the enolate of an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal or of aluminum, and the enol ester can be the ester formed by the enolic hydroxyl and formic, acetic, propionic or butyric acid.
Abstract:
Optionally substituted fluoro-nitro-benzaldehydes are prepared from optionally substituted halogeno-nitro-benzaldehydes and an alkali metal fluoride in a substantially anhydrous inert aprotic solvent, by heating to 50.degree. to 250.degree. C.
Abstract:
Substituted bromofluorobenzene, wherein the fluorine is in para-position and the bromine in meta-position to another substituent, is prepared by direct bromination of the corresponding fluorobenzene derivative. Bromination is advantageously carried out in the presence of a catalyst, preferably a metal or metal salt. The elementary bromine is used in an amount of 0.9 to 1.3 mols per mol of fluorobenzene derivative and the reaction temperature is between 20.degree. and 200.degree. C. The bromofluorobenzene derivatives are suitable for the synthesis of medicaments and plant protective agents.
Abstract:
A process for the preparation of di- or trifluoromethoxyphenyl ketones or di- or trifluoromethylthiophenyl ketones, characterized in that, in a first stage, a di- or trihalomethoxybenzene or a di- or trihalomethylthiobenzene is reacted with a trihalomethylated aromatic or aliphatic compound in the presence of boron trifluoride in an amount such that the absolute pressure of boron trifluoride within the reaction vessel exceeds 1 bar, and in the presence of hydrofluoric acid as a solvent and in that, in a second stage, the product of the first stage is hydrolyzed. The resultant products are useful as intermediates in the synthesis of compounds having a pharmaceutical or phytosanitary (e.g., herbicidal) activity.
Abstract:
Herbicidally active compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen or chlorine atom,R.sup.2 represents a hydrogen atom, a cyano group, an optionally substituted radical selected from alkyl, aryl, alkanoyl, benzoyl, alkoxycarbonyl, alkenoxycarbonyl, alkinoxycarbonyl, aralkoxycarbonyl and aryloxycarbonyl, or a radical of the general formula --COOM,in whichM represents a hydrogen atom, one equivalent of an alkali metal ion or alkaline earth metal ion or optionally substituted ammonium, andR.sup.3 represents a cyano group or a radical of the general formula ##STR2## wherein Y represents an oxygen or sulphur atom or an imino (NH) or alkylimino (N-alkyl) group,R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 independently of each other represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group,n is 0 or 1 andZ represents an optionally substituted radical.