Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft

Herbert Weber

Thomas Schottle

Klaus Hintzer

Karl Rettenbeck

Hans J Staudt

Werner Dostler

The pyrolysis of fluorine polymers leads to a high yield of pure fluorinated monomers if the finely divided polymer is introduced, with steam, into a fluidized bed reactor which contains an inert, granular material as the fluidized material, the steam functioning as the fluidizing gas.

Process for the preparation of fluorinated monomers

A process for the preparation of mixtures of chlorotetrafluoroethane and octafluorocyclobutane from the gas stream from the pyrolysis of chlorodifluoromethane at temperatures above 600.degree. C. is described in which the principal constituents tetrafluoroethylene and hexafluoropropylene as well as hydrogen chloride are removed in advance. The mixtures are obtained by withdrawal as a side fraction during the rectifying distillation of the residue remaining, a clean separation of the perfluorocyclobutenes advantageously taking place. The mixtures are used for obtaining hexafluoropropylene by pyrolysis.

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