Ube Industries, Inc.

Kazunori Kurosawa

Junichi Kugimoto

Joji Kawai

Hideo Shimomura

Joji Funatsu

Kazuo Yamato

Yoshinori Sugimura

Tsunemi Sugimoto

Ryouta Yasumatsu

Masahide Okada

Wanna Sirisuksukon

Naoya Katagiri

Nantariya Ngamsup

Katsuyoshi Kudo

Mitsuru Kishishita

A method and a system for inexpensively producing a corresponding target ketone and/or alcohol by decomposing hydroperoxide rapidly and with high selectivity using an aqueous alkaline solution and by recovering and recycling alkali. The method includes neutralizing at least a part of a carboxylic acid in the oxidation reaction solution by contacting the oxidation reaction solution with a first alkaline solution including a carbonate of an alkali metal, and separating the reaction mixture into a first oil phase and a first water phase; decomposing the hydroperoxide and the ester compound in the first oil phase by contacting the first oil phase with a second alkaline solution having a higher pH value than the first alkaline solution, and separating the reaction mixture into a second oil phase and a second water phase; and recovering the carbonate of an alkali metal from the first water phase and recycling the carbonate of an alkali metal to the first alkaline solution.

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

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.

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

The present invention provides novel cyclododecanone-O-azacyclotridecen-2-yloxime and cyclododecanone-O-azacyclotridecen-2-yloxime hydrochloride. The invention also provides a process for producing an amide compound wherein cyclododecanone-O-azacyclotridecen-2-yloxime, hydrogen chloride and/or Lewis acid or cyclododecanone-O-azacyclotridecen-2-yloxime hydrochloride are used as a rearrangement catalyst and/or a reaction starting material in a reaction step.

Compound and process for producing amide compound therewith

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Kazunori Kurosawa