Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Nakaoka

Nobuo Kaifu

Hisatoshi Koinuma

Kaoru Abe

Kazuaki Okabe

Hideyuki Ishii

Ikuhiko Kanehira

Toshiro Kubota

Masami Suganami

The present invention relates to a process for producing an MEK-modified resorcinol-formalin resin, in which recovery and reuse of the specific raw materials (water, calcium chloride, and methyl ethyl ketone (MEK)), and methanol contained in formalin, are carried out in parallel. Using this closed-system recycle production method, a resorcinol-formalin resin aqueous solution can be obtained, wherein the resin aqueous solution has a reaction product concentration of from 30 to 80%, moderate flowability with a pH of 6 to 10, a calcium chloride concentration of 100 ppm or less, a peak area corresponding to a resorcinol monomer of from 3 to 9% to the entire peak area obtained by gel permeation chromatography analysis, and a peak area corresponding to resorcinol pentanuclear or higher nuclear bodies of from 30 to 55% to the entire peak.

Process for producing MEK-modified resorcin/formalin resin parallelly carrying out recovery and reuse of specified raw material

A method for producing a polyether-polyol having a narrow molecular weight distribution, which comprises carrying out selective fractional extraction of the low-molecular weight component from a polyether-polyol (A) having an average molecular weight of from 500 to 4500 represented by formula (1):HO&#x2014;[(CH)O]&#x2014;[(CRR)O]&#x2014;H&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)wherein Rand R, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched alkyl group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms; n indicates a positive integer; p indicates an integer of from 1 to 8; and q indicates 0 or a positive integer, by the use of an aqueous solution (C) containing from 15 to 70 wt % sulfuric acid at a room temperature to 100&#xb0; C., to thereby suitably determine the amount of the aqueous sulfuric acid solution to the overall organic layer and the sulfuric acid concentration in accordance with the molecular weight and molecular weight distribution of the intended polyether-polyol to be fractionally extracted.

Method for producing polyether-polyol having narrow molecular weight distribution

It is an object of the invention to provide a ketone-modified resorcinol-formalin resin, which has a moderate flowability when transformed into an aqueous solution and has both a reduced content of resorcinol monomer and a reduced content of resorcinol-formalin resin of resorcinol pentanuclear or higher nuclear bodies. The invention relates to a ketone-modified resorcinol-formalin resin, which is produced by a two-step reaction and wherein a peak area corresponding resorcinol monomer is 3 to 9% and a peak area corresponding to resorcinol pentanuclear and higher nuclear bodies is 30 to 55% relative to the total peak area obtained by gel permeation chromatographic analysis of the resorcinol-formalin resin.

Ketone-modified resorcinol-formalin resin

A process for producing a resorcinol-formalin resin containing no salts, having a moderate flowability when transformed into an aqueous solution, and having a reduced content of resorcinol monomer and a reduced content of resorcinol-formalin resin of resorcinol pentanuclear or higher nuclear bodies, the whole steps including an one-stage reaction and liquid-liquid distribution being conducted in the same reactor, which comprises adding resorcinol, an inorganic salt, and an organic solvent having a solubility parameter of 7.0 to 12.5 to a water solvent, stirring the mixture to give a two-phase system containing no remaining solid matter, adding an acid catalyst, adding formalin dropwise into the reaction system to cause a liquid-liquid heterogeneous reaction to proceed, removing the aqueous layer, adding an organic solvent and water to the reaction product layer, the amount of the water being half of the amount of the organic solvent, stirring the resulting mixture, allowing it to stand, and then removing the aqueous layer to obtain the resorcinol-formalin resin.

Process for producing resorcinol-formalin resin

Tetrahydrofurans suitable for use as starting materials in the synthesis of polyether polyols without causing coloration in the product polyether polyols can be obtained by contacting crude tetrahydrofurans with a mineral acid or a strongly acidic cation-exchange resin, followed by isolation through a simple distillation and/or rectification to obtain purified tetrahydrofurans.

Process for purifying tetrahydrofurans used as starting material for polyether polyols

An industrially advantageous process described below has been established wherein tetrahydrofuran and a cyclic ether copolymerizable therewith are copolymerized by the use of a very small amount of a commercially available heteropolyacid as it is untreated, the heteropolyacid of the catalyst is recovered, recycled and reused in a simple way, and a high quality polyether substantially free from catalyst contaminants is obtained. A process for producing a polyether, comprising the steps of copolymerizing tetrahydrofuran and at least one cyclic ether copolymerizable therewith by the use of an untreated heteropolyacid as a catalyst in the presence of a hydroxy compound to form a reaction liquid, contacting the resulting reaction liquid with an anion exchange resin so that the heteropolyacid contained in the reaction liquid adsorb to the anion exchange resin to remove the heteropolyacid, desorbing the removed heteropolyacid from the anion exchange resin to reuse it as the catalyst, and reusing the anion exchange resin after the desorption as it is, thus to recycle and reuse both the catalyst and the anion exchange resin.

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Hiroshi Nakaoka