Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.

Nippon Shokubai Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Atusi Moriya

Hideaki Tsuneki

Hiroshi Yoshida

Yoshiyuki Onda

Kenichi Watanabe

Hiroki Wakayama

Michio Ueshima

Kimio Ariyoshi

Hideyuki Baba

The invention provides a process for producing dialkanolamines through amination of alkylene oxide with ammonia at liquid phase, in which side formation of trialkanolamines is inhibited and dialkanolamines can be produced with high selectivity and high efficiency. Said process is carried out in the presence of a catalyst which possesses such reaction characteristics that render the rate constant &agr; of the reaction between ammonia and alkylene oxide not less than 0.10, when the reaction rate constant between monoalkanolamine and alkylene oxide is 1, and the rate constant &bgr; of the reaction between dialkanolamine and alkylene oxide not more than 0.7, when the reaction rate constant between monoalkanolamine and alkylene oxide is 1.

Process for producing dialkanolamines

Reaction distillation apparatus and reaction distillation method

A process is provided which comprises using a catalyst comprises a rare earth element supported on an inorganic heat-resisting carrier, when a monoethanolamine is selectively prepared by reacting an alkylene oxide with ammonia in a liquid phase. This catalyst has excellent monoalkanolamine selectivity and heat resistance; and therefore, even when the ratio of ammonia to the alkylene oxide is lower compared with cases where other catalysts are used, an equal or more amount of the monoalkanolamine can be formed, and thus the recovery cost of the unreacted ammonia is reduced. Further, since the total amount of the feed raw materials is reduced, apparatuses for the reaction system and recovery system can be made smaller, and thus the cost of equipment is reduced.

Rare earth supported catalyst useful for preparation of alkanolamines

Process for preparing aromatic carbonic ester

Process for preparation for alkanolamine, catalyst used in the process

Carboxylate (1) of the formula R.sup.1 COOR.sup.2 (where each of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently represents an alkyl group, an alicyclic hydrocarbon group or an aryl alkyl group), an aromatic hydroxy compound of the formula R.sup.3 OH (where R.sup.3 represents an aromatic group with or without a substituent), and a catalyst are supplied to a batch reactor 1, and a transesterification between the carboxylate (1) and the aromatic hydroxy compound is performed to produce carboxylate (3) of the formula R.sup.1 COOR.sup.3 (where R.sup.1 and R.sup.3 are as defined above). After distilling off the by-produced alcohol and unreacted compounds using a distillation column 2, carbonate ester (4) of the formula R.sup.4 O--COOR.sup.5 (where each of R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 independently represents an alkyl group, an alicyclic hydrocarbon group or an aryl alkyl group) is supplied to the batch reactor 1. Then, a transesterification between the carboxylate (3) and the carbonate ester (4) is performed to produce carbonate ester (5) of the formula R.sup.3 O--COOR.sup.6 (where R.sup.3 is as defined above, and R.sup.6 is a substituent selected from the group consisting of R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5). This process enables efficient preparation of carbonate esters.

Process for preparing carbonate esters

A method for regeneration of catalyst which comprises phosphorus and alkali metal element and/or alkaline earth metal element and was deteriorated by use to produce aziridine compound represented by the general formula ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen, a methyl group or an ethyl group, by a catalytic vapor-phase intramolecular dehydration reaction of alkanolamine represented by the general formula ##STR2## wherein R is as defined in the formula (II), X is OH or NH.sub.2, and Y is either NH.sub.2 when X is OH or OH when X is NH.sub.2, characterized in that the deteriorated catalyst is contacted with gaseous volatile phosphorus compound.

Method for regeneration of catalyst for producing of aziridine compounds

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Atusi Moriya