Abstract:
Dinitrotoluenes are prepared by reacting mononitrotoluene(s) with nitric acid, in liquid phase, in the presence of an inorganic and acidic solid including at least one component selected from among orthophosphoric acid, pyrophosphoric acid, metaphosphoric acid, a metal dihydrogen phosphate, a metal hydrogen phosphate, a metal orthophosphate or a metal pyrophosphate, such metal cations having from 1 to 5 positive charges.
Abstract:
An improved industrial process for producing a compound of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms which comprises reacting a compound of the general formula: ##STR2## wherein R is as defined above with nitrous acid in a mixed solvent of water and a water-insoluble or slightly soluble organic solvent.
Abstract:
This invention relates to the preparation of a mixture of nitroaromatic compositions, particularly a mixture of mononitrobenzene and dinitrotoluene. The conitration of a mixture of aromatic hydrocarbons is accomplished by contacting the mixture of hydrocarbons with nitric acid, in the absence of sulfuric acid, at temperatures of from about 40.degree. to 70.degree. C. By the use of nitric acid alone, one avoids the heterogeneous nitration associated with the use of sulfuric acid and thereby one can effectively produce a reaction mixture containing mononitrobenzene and dinitrotoluene.
Abstract:
Geminal dinitro compounds are prepared by reacting an organic nitro compound having a replaceable hydrogen on the carbon to which the nitro group is attached with a source of nitrite ions in the presence of an oxidizing agent and a catalytic amount of an alkali metal ferricyanide.
Abstract:
A process for the preparation of para-nitrophenol by bringing a phenyl ester of an inorganic acid into contact with a nitrating agent in the presence of liquid hydrofluoric acid and a hydrolysis of the nitrated product obtained is carried out either simultaneously or in sequence with the nitration.
Abstract:
A reactor for nitration of saturated hydrocarbons having less than five con atoms, alone or in admixture, in the gaseous phase under pressure is made up of a reaction enclosure, in which a tube or pipe bank is in contact with a heated fluid of high heat-exchange capacity. The inside perimeter of the tubes does not exceed 800 mm, and if circular not in excess of 250 mm, and the ratio of the surface of the tube bank, in contact with the reaction medium, to the volume of the reaction enclosure is 1:1 to 3:1.The reactor apparatus further includes a mechanical means to uniformly distribute the delivery of reaction medium gases to the various tubes of the bank so that the load difference between the most loaded tube and that of the least loaded tube is equal to 10% at the most.The reactor also includes a tube bank injector which feeds the tube bank to assure homogeneous mixing of all the reaction fluids in the tube bank.
Abstract:
A process for mon-nitrating a plynuclear aromatic compound essentially in the absence of sulfuric acid and a solvent comprising adding nitric acid to a liquid aromatic compound wherein the molar ratio of nitric acid to the aromatic compound in from 0.75/1 ot 2/1 and the reaction temperature is from 50.degree. to 100.degree. C.
Abstract:
An improved process for forming nitroparaffins by gaseous phase nitration of hydrocarbons higher than methane. The improvement comprises carrying out the nitration in the presence of a small amount of oxygenated hydrocarbons selected from aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, ethers and mixtures thereof.
Abstract:
An adiabatic process for the mononitration of nitratable aromatic hydrocarbons and halo substituted aromatic hydrocarbons which yield a mononitration product containing less than 500 ppm. of dinitrated product is disclosed.