The Dow Chemical Company

Garnet E McConchie

Loren L Swearingen

Wallace E Embrey

Robert E Hefner, Jr

Randy J LaTulip

Frank E Mark

Jim D Earls

Hans-Gunter Hollmann

Eberhard Dreher

Craig W Snook

Christoph Buhs

Alfred W Heinsohn

Organic esters such as propylene glycol diacetate are prepared in a single organic reaction phase from the corresponding halocarbon having from 3 to 8 carbon atoms, e.g., 1,2-dicholorpropane and the alkali or alkaline earth metal salt of a carboxylic acid. The inorganic salt formed thereby is not soluble in the organic phase. The reaction rate and selectivity are surprisingly good when the reaction contains little or no water.

Method for preparing organic esters from halocarbons and alkali metal

The oxychlorination process for producing ethylene dichloride is carried out by reacting ethylene with hydrogen chloride and oxygen in an oxychlorination reactor. Thereby, ethyl chloride and perhaps vinyl chloride are produced as by-products. The effluent from the reactor is at least fractionated into an ethylene dichloride-rich fraction (I) and an ethyl chloride-rich fraction (II) so that fraction (I) contains less than 50 percent of the total weight of ethyl chloride produced in step (a) and the sum of the weight of ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride in fraction (II) is less than 30 percent of the weight of ethyl chloride in fraction (II). The ethyl chloride-rich fraction (II) is subjected to a cracking reaction in the presence or absence of an inert diluent wherein ethyl chloride is converted into ethylene and hydrogen chloride in the presence of a catalyst. The total weight of ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride is less than 5 percent, based on the combined weight of ethyl chloride and any inert diluent.

Process for producing ethylene dichloride

Process for the production of 2,4,6-trimethyl pyridine wherein acetone or an acetone derivative is reacted under pressure with ammonia in the presence of a metallic catalyst to form mixture of products with a high preparation of 2,4,6-trimethyl pyridine and recovering the trimethyl pyridine.

Single pass process for making trimethyl pyridine

Distillation of the heavy waste stream from the manufacture of phenol via the cumene process provides an overhead stream containing phenol, acetophenone and 2-phenyl propionaldehyde. Extraction of the overhead stream with aqueous caustic removes the phenol and subsequent distillation of the remaining two components in the presence of a catalytic amount of caustic provides a substantially pure acetophenone distillate.

Acetophenone recovery and purification

Poly(allyl)poly(alkenylphenols) are prepared by the transcarbonation of poly(alkenylphenols).

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