Nippon Carbide Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroshi Shibafuchi

Masanori Sasaki

Yasushi Imai

Masahiko Yoshida

Takehiko Yoshie

Masahiro Murotani

Hajime Mura

Kenichi Ishii

Makoto Takeda

Hidenori Nitta

Kazuyoshi Miyata

A method for producing 3-amino-5-mercapto-1,2,4-triazole, useful as an intermediate compound for a medicine or pesticide, or the intermediate thereof, a salt of N-guanidino thiourea from aminoguanidine thiocyanate or a thiocyanate and an aminoguanidine compound in the presence of an acid in a polar solvent, or even from hydrazine and cyanamide is disclosed.

Processes for producing a salt of N-guanidino thiourea and

A process for producing 5-aminotetrazole comprising the steps of: reacting cyanamide with hydrazine in a solvent to form a salt of aminoguanidine; adding thereto an acid and then a nitrite to form a salt of diazoguanidine; and cyclizing the salt of diazoguanidine, upon heating, to thereby produce the 5-aminotetrazole, without isolating the intermediate product and also a process for producing 5-aminotetrazole or a metal salt thereof in the form of powder by spray drying.

Process for producing 5-aminotetrazole

Alkali metal azide particles most of which have a nearly spherical shape and take a spongy structure and whose volume average particle size ratio in the ultrasonic dispersion treatment is desirously 0.4 or less. Since self-decomposition characteristics of the alkali metal azide particles according to this invention are quite mild, they can be simply handled in large amounts and are quite useful as a gas generating agent for an automobile air bag.

Alkali metal azide particles

The method of producing an alkali metal azide involves reaction of hydrazine with an alkyl nitrite in a solvent in the presence of an alkali metal hydroxide. As the solvent is used as aqueous solvent and the reaction ratio of hydrazine is controlled within the range between 50% and 90%. The method can produce with high purities and in high yields alkali metal azides useful as a raw material for the preparation of tetrazoles which can be used as an intermediate material for medicines, as a raw material for the preparation of organic azides useful for light sensitive materials for photo masks employed in the field of electronics industries, or as a major raw material for inflaters used in air bags for cars.

Method of producing alkali metal azides

A process for producing cyanamide from lime nitrogen, which comprises dispersing lime nitrogen in an organic liquid containing an aliphatic alcohol having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and blowing carbon dioxide gas into the dispersion.

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Uozu, Japan

Hiroshi Shibafuchi