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Carsten Oost

Manfred Stroezel

Gerd Kaibel

Heinz Etzrodt

Hagen Jaedicke

Dietmar Weller

Bernhard Bockstiegel

Klaus Reimer

Boris Breitscheidel

Peter Schwab

Michael Schulz

Walter Dobler

Ralf Schulz

Jochem Henkelmann

Wolfgang Rohde

Achim Stammer

Thomas Krug

Andreas Ansmann

Alois Kindler

Udo Rheude

Harald Laas

Eckhard Ströfer

Martin Sohn

Christian Miller

Susanne Stutz

Luise Spiske

Alfred Thome

Gerald Meyer

Christian Tragut

J&ouml;rg Therre

Lothar Laupichler

Karl-Heinz Sartor

Peter Schmitt

Peter Trübenbach

Jürgen Heners

Jens Von Erden

Wilfried Berning

A process is proposed for reprocessing the exhaust gas from a plant for producing hydroxylamine or hydroxylammonium salts by catalytic reduction of nitrogen monoxide with hydrogen for the purpose of utilization of at least a part of the nitrogen monoxide and if appropriate hydrogen present in the exhaust gas for producing hydroxylamine or hydroxylammonium salts, which comprises, in a first separation stage, selectively separating off nitrogen monoxide from the exhaust gas of the plant for producing hydroxylamine or hydroxylammonium salts.

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A process is proposed for the distillation or reactive distillation of a mixture that includes at least one toxic component, the process being carried out in a column containing a structured packing, having at least one packing layer () having a lower end () and an upper end (), the packing layer having an internal geometry varying over its height, in such a manner that in the distillation or reactive distillation, in a first, lower region () of the packing layer () a bubbling layer having a predominantly disperse gas phase can be established and simultaneously in a second, upper region () of the packing layer () a film flow having a predominantly continuous gas phase can be established.

Method for carrying out the distillation or reactive distillation of a mixture containing at least one toxic constituent

A process is proposed for the separation of Ccuts by distillation into a low-boiler (A), a medium-boiler (B) and a high-boiler fraction (C) in one or more dividing-wall columns (TK), in which a dividing wall (T) is arranged in the longitudinal direction of the column with formation of an upper, common column region (), a lower, common column region (), a feed part () with rectifying section () and stripping section (), and a withdrawal part () with rectifying section () and stripping section (), with feed of the Ccut (A, B, C) into the central region of the feed part (), discharge of the high-boiler fraction (C) from the bottom of the column, discharge of the low-boiler fraction (A) via the top of the column, and discharge of the medium-boiler fraction (B) from the central region of the withdrawal part (), wherein the dividing ratio of the liquid reflux at the upper end of the dividing wall (T) is set in such a way that the proportion of high-boiling key components in the liquid reflux over the stripping section () of the withdrawal part at the upper end of the dividing wall (T) is from 10 to 80%, preferably from 30 to 50%, of the limit value allowed in the medium-boiler fraction (B), and wherein the heating power in the evaporator at the bottom of the dividing-wall column (TK) is set in such a way that the concentration of the low-boiling key components in the liquid at the lower end of the dividing wall (T) is from 10 to 80%, preferably from 30 to 50%, of the limit value allowed in the medium-boiler fraction (B).

Propene and, if desired, 1-butene are prepared by

Preparation of propene and, if desired, 1-butene

Higher &agr;,&bgr;-unsaturated alcohols are prepared by monoethynylation of a ketone by the NH /KOH method, if desired hydrogenation of the acetylene alcohol in the presence of hydrogen over a Pd-containing thin layer catalyst, purifying distillation of the hydrogenation product, preferably in a dividing wall column with recirculation of the unreacted ketone to the ethynylation step, and, if desired, preparation of higher alcohols having in each case 5 more carbon atoms in the chain by reacting the alcohols prepared by monoethynylation and, if desired, partial hydrogenation with alkyl acetoacetates diketene in a Carroll reaction to form ketones and using these as starting materials for the steps ethynylation, optional hydrogenation and fractional distillation.

Preparation of higher &agr;, &bgr;-unsaturated alcohols

A process is described for continuously preparing chromanol ester derivatives, in particular for continuously preparing carboxylic esters of tocopherols and tocotrienols by continuous acylation with carboxylic acids or carboxylic anhydrides.

Method for continuously acylating chromanol ester derivatives

Method for the continuous production of glutaraldehyde

Propene and, if desired, 1-butene are prepared by first reacting 1-butene and 2-butene to give propene and 2-pentene in the presence of a metathesis catalyst containing at least one compound of a metal of transition group VIb, VIIb or VIII of the Periodic Table of the Elements. The propene and 2-pentene formed are subsequently separated, and the 2-pentene is then reacted to give propene and 1-butene in the presence of a metathesis catalyst containing at least one compound of a metal of transition group VIb, VIIb or VIII. The propene and 1-butene formed are subsequently separated, and at least some of the 1-butene is discharged or at least partly isomerized to give 2-butene in the presence of an isomerization catalyst. Undischarged 1-butene and the 2-butene formed are subsequently returned to the initial reaction step, together with that part of the C fraction which was not reacted in the initial reaction step.

Process for the continuous preparation of unsaturated ketones of the formula I

Continuous preparation of unsaturated ketones

Process for preparing unsaturated ketones

Process for preparing higher unsaturated ketones

A process for preparing .gamma.,.delta.-unsaturated ketones of the general formula I ##STR1## by reacting an allyl alcohol of the general formula II ##STR2## in which R.sup.1 is H or a hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, with diketene or an alkyl acetoacetate of the general formula III ##STR3## in which R.sup.2 is alkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms in an unmodified or modified Carroll reaction in the presence of an aluminum catalyst, wherein aluminum compounds which are stable liquids at room temperature, or a mixture of such aluminum compounds, which comprise at least one radical formed from an alkyl acetoacetate and 1 or 2 alkoxy radicals, or else comprise exclusively radicals formed from alkyl acetoacetates, which are esterified with sec-butanol or isobutanol, or else are esterified with at least two different alcohols, are used as aluminum catalyst. Also claimed are the novel mixtures of aluminum compounds which comprise radicals which are formed exclusively from alkyl acetoacetates and are esterified with at least two different alkanols, and the batchwise and continuous preparation of the liquid aluminum catalysts.

Preparation of .gamma.,.delta.-unsaturated ketones by the Carroll

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