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Klaus Kaiser

Joachim Paust

Hagen Jaedicke

Friedhelm Balkenhohl

Helmut Indest

Ulrich Von Deessen

Manfred Hamm

A process for reducing the phosphate content in waste water from the preparation of salts of ascorbic acid 2-monophosphate comprises A. treating the waste water from the crystallization of the metal salts of ascorbic acid 2-monophosphate with an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal hypochlorite, chlorine or H.sub.2 O.sub.2, and B. precipitating, at a pH of 9-12, the inorganic phosphate which has been produced from organically bound phosphorus and/or was present in the waste water, especially as calcium phosphate.

Reduction of the phosphate content in waste water from the preparation

A process for isolating the calcium salt of ascorbyl 2-monophosphate from aqueous alkaline reaction mixtures as are obtained on reaction of ascorbic acid with a molar excess of phosphorus oxychloride in the presence of a tertiary amine while maintaining a pH of from 12 to 13 during the reaction by means of an aqueous alkali metal hydroxide solution, which comprises a) starting from a reaction mixture which has been obtained by reacting ascorbic acid with phosphorus oxychloride in the presence of pyridine while maintaining a pH of from 12 to 13 by means of an aqueous potassium hydroxide solution, b) precipitating, as potassium magnesium phosphate, the phosphate ions which have been formed in this reaction by means of magnesium chloride in amounts of about 1 mol per mol of phosphate ions, c) removing the potassium magnesium phosphate, d) distilling the remaining aqueous solution to remove the pyridine together with part of the water, e) reacting the resulting aqueous solution with calcium chloride and f) isolating the calcium salt of ascorbyl 2-monophosphate which crystallizes thereby, or first distilling the pyridine-water mixture according to step (d) from the reaction mixture obtained in step (a) and thereafter carrying out steps (b), (c), (e) and (f).

Preparation of calcium L-ascorbate 2-phosphate

An improved process for the preparation of polyenes by the Julia reaction comprises carrying out the allylation of the anion of an allyl aryl sulfone generated a strong base, and the elimination of arylsulfinic acid to form a double bond in the same inert polar solvent which is immiscible with water, preferably in a ketone of the formula I

Preparation of polyenes

A process for preparing retinyl glycosides of the formula I ##STR1## where Z is a glycosidic residue, by glycosidation of a completely acylated carbohydrate or completely acylated glycosidic polymer of the formula II

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