Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.

Masami Matsumoto

Hideaki Fujita

Fumiya Zaima

Masato Inari

Toru Tanaka

Ikutaro Kuzuhara

Hiroaki Shigeta

Nozomi Nakagawa

Atsushi Ozaki

The present invention provides a method for producing ditrimethylolpropane which is characterized by the following (1) and (2): (1) a distillation still residue separated from purified trimethylolpropane is subjected to re-distillation under specific conditions to obtain a ditrimethylolpropane-containing solution having given contents of bis-TMP and tri-TMP; and (2) when subjecting the ditrimethylolpropane-containing solution to crystallization with an organic solvent, the crystallization is initiated under pressure at a temperature exceeding a boiling point of the organic solvent as measured under normal pressures, and the resulting crystallization product solution is cooled at a temperature drop rate of 2&#xb0; C./min or less. According to the above method, it is possible to produce a high-purity ditrimethylolpropane from a distillation still residue obtained upon production of trimethylolpropane in a simple, industrially useful manner.

Method for producing ditrimethylolpropane

Process for recovering catalyst components from a mother liquor of liquid phase oxidation

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Process for producing aromatic carboxylic acid

A process for purifying crude 2,6-naphthalene dimethyl dicarboxylate (hereinunder referred to as 2,6-NDM) which comprises dissolving the crude 2,6-NDM into a C.sub.6 -C.sub.9 aromatic hydrocarbon, then contacting the solution of 2,6-NDM and the hydrocarbon with an hydrotalcite-like laminar crystalline compound and activated carbon, then carrying out thermal filtration of the solution, and then cooling the solution to separate 2,6-NDM crystal from the solution is disclosed.

Process for purifying dimethyl-2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylate

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