Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.

Shin-Etsu Chemical Col, Ltd.

Hiroyuki Kobayashi

Yukinori Satoh

Yoshihiro Shirota

Masaaki Furuya

Susumu Ueno

Hiroshi Nakayama

Akihito Tsukuno

Naoyuki Ida

Masayuki Hasegawa

Hideaki Ozeki

Kazuo Ogiwara

Yoshihiro Shirata

Tomomi Narita

A diorganodichlorosilane is prepared by subjecting organochlorosilanes to disproportionation reaction in the co-presence of a SiH group-containing compound and in the presence of a primary catalyst of AlCl or AlBr and a co-catalyst of Mg, Al, Ca, Ti, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn or Sn or a compound thereof. The invention enables disproportionation reaction of organochlorosilanes under atmospheric pressure and at a low temperature at which no substantial sublimation of AlCl or the like occurs, thus allowing the reaction equipment to be simple and improving the safety of reaction.

Preparation of diorganodichlorosilane

For the continuous hydrolysis of organochlorosilane, a reaction system comprising at least three stages of hydrolysis is used. Each stage includes a reactor and a phase separator wherein hydrolysis is effected to form a hydrolysis mixture which is separated into a hydrolyzate and a hydrogen chloride-containing aqueous medium. The separated aqueous medium is circulated to the reactor. The hydrolyzate is conveyed to the reactor of the subsequent stage. The organochlorosilane is fed into the first stage reactor, the aqueous medium containing an amount of water corresponding to the consumption in one stage is fed into one stage reactor from the subsequent stage, and an amount of water corresponding to the consumption in the overall reaction system is fed in the last stage. Then the entire amount of hydrogen chloride generated in multiple stages of hydrolysis is recovered as anhydrous hydrogen chloride from the first stage. The entire amount of the aqueous media separated in the phase separators is retained in the reaction system.

Continuous hydrolysis of organochlorosilanes

A silane-containing gas is treated by contacting it with a liquid containing silanes or disilanes which are higher boiling than the silanes in the silane-containing gas, thereby easily removing or reducing the amount of silanes in the gas and enabling the recovery of these silanes.

Method for treating silane-containing gas

Methyl chloride is prepared by effecting liquid-phase reaction between hydrogen chloride and methanol in the absence of a catalyst. The reaction is effected in divided stages including at least an early stage and a last stage. The early stage of reaction is effected in a stoichiometric excess of hydrogen chloride. The last stage of reaction is effected in a stoichiometric excess of methanol. The invention is industrially advantageous in that methyl chloride can be prepared at a high conversion of hydrogen chloride while suppressing the formation of dimethyl ether by-product.

Preparation of methyl chloride

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