Ube Industries, Inc.

Joji Funatsu

Junichi Kugimoto

Tomohiko Yamamoto

Yukio Inaba

Kazunori Kurosawa

Genji Koga

Hideki Noguchi

Nobuyuki Kuroda

Joji Kawai

Takato Nakamura

Hideo Shimomura

Kazuo Yamato

Nobuhiro Ii

Yoshinori Sugimura

Masahide Okada

Naoya Katagiri

Katsuyoshi Kudo

This invention provides producing having an objective ketone and/or alcohol by decomposing of a hydrocarbon compound rapidly and selectively having a same number of carbon atoms as a hydrocarbon compound by decomposing a hydroperoxide in a reaction solution obtained from oxidizing the hydrocarbon compound using molecular oxygen of this invention involves, a hydroperoxide decomposition step for decomposing the hydroperoxide into the ketone and/or alcohol by contacting the reaction solution with an aqueous solution containing a carbonate of an alkaline earth metal or a carbonate of an alkali metal and a transition metal compound, a separation step for separating into an oil phase comprising the ketone and/or alcohol, and a water phase comprising the carbonate of an alkaline earth metal or carbonate of an alkali metal and the transition metal compound, a recovery step for recovering the carbonate of an alkali metal or carbonate of an alkaline earth metal and the transition metal compound by combusting the water phase, and a recycling step for recycling to the hydroperoxide decomposition step by dissolving at least the carbonate of the alkali metal or the carbonate of the alkaline earth metal among the recovered substances obtained from the recovery step in water.

Method for producing ketone and/or alcohol, and system thereof

This invention relates to a process for producing an oxime comprising reacting a ketone and hydroxylamine in the presence of a carboxylic acid and/or its salt in a system consisting of an aqueous phase and a hydrophobic solvent phase.

Method for producing oxime

An epoxycyclododecane compound is produced by a catalytic hydrogenation reaction of 1,2-epoxy-5,9-cyclododecadiene, using a specific platinum-containing catalyst having a long life, under a hydrogen gas pressure of 0.8 to 9 MPa, and with a high yield of the target compound.

Method of producing an epoxycyclododecane compound

Oxamide is produced in a high purity by a process comprising (A) melting a starting material comprising 70 to 100 wt % of an oxalic acid diester of an aliphatic alcohol and 0 to 30 wt % of the same aliphatic alcohol as mentioned above, (B) feed-mixing an ammonia-containing gas to the starting material melt, while stirring, to produce oxamide and the aliphatic alcohol (by-product), (C) continuing the ammonia-feed-mixing procedure while controlling a feed rate of ammonia to an extent such that a content of the aliphatic alcohol in the reaction mixture is maintained at a level of 3 to 45% by weight, to produce a wetted solid reaction product comprising the resultant oxamide and the aliphatic alcohol, and then (D) collecting the oxamide from the reaction product by evaporating away the aliphatic alcohol.

Process for producing oxamide

Oxamide granules are produced by (A) feed-mixing ammonia to a starting material comprising 60 to 100 weight % of a diester of oxalic acid with a C.sub.1-6 aliphatic alcohol, and 0 to 40 weight % of the same aliphatic alcohol as mentioned above, to produce oxamide and the aliphatic alcohol as by-product, while controlling the aliphatic alcohol content to 5 to 40% based on the weight of the reaction mixture to provide the resultant oxamide wetted by the aliphatic alcohol; (B) granulating the wetted product while maintaining the content of the aliphatic alcohol at a level of 5 to 40% based on the weight of the wetted reaction product; (C) heat-evaporating away the aliphatic alcohol from the wetted granules; and optionally (D) re-wetting the resultant dry oxamide granules with water in an amount of 5 to 20% based on the weight of the dry oxamide granules; and (E) re-drying the re-wetted oxamide granules, to provide oxamide granules having an enhanced mechanical strength and form-stability in water.

Process for producing oxamide granules

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Joji Funatsu