Koei Chemical Company, Limited

Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Nobuyuki Abe

Shinkichi Shimizu

Akira Iguchi

Masanori Doba

Hiroshi Sato

Hiroshi Ichihashi

Masaru Kitamura

Takayuki Shoji

Youichi Umada

Toru Nakaishi

Ken-ichi Hirose

Akira Taguro

Takayasu Niwa

Naorou Itoh

2,3,5-Collidine and 2-ethyl-5-methylpyridine are prepared in high yields at the same time by reacting methacrolein and methyl ethyl ketone with ammonia in a gas phase in the presence of a catalyst which comprises silica-alumina containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of cobalt, zinc, cadmium, thallium and lead.

Process for the preparation of 2,3,5-collidine and

The present invention provides a process for producing pyridine bases which comprises reacting an aliphatic aldehyde and/or a ketone with ammonia in the presence of a catalyst in gaseous phase, said catalyst comprising a zeolite containing (a) an element belonging to the platinum group and (b) at least one element selected from the group consisting of the elements of Groups IIB, IIIA and IVA of the periodic table and the having an atomic ratio of Si to elements consisting of Al, B, Fe and/or Ga of about 12 to about 1,000 and a constraint indedx of about 0.8 to about 12.

Process for producing pyridine bases

Carbonaceous materials deposited on solid catalysts and produced, for example, in Beckmann rearrangement in a gaseous phase are burned off by effecting the treatment in the presence of alcohols such as methanol or ethanol together with molecular oxygen-containing gas in order to regenerate the catalyst activity.

Regeneration of catalysts by burning in the presence of alcohols

Process for producing pyridine bases by reacting an aliphatic aldehyde and/or ketone with ammonia in gaseous phase in the presence of a catalyst, characterized by using a catalyst which is obtained by modifying a zeolite having an atomic ratio of Si to Al, Fe and/or Ga of 12 to 1,000 and a constraint index of about 0.8 to about 12 with at least one metal ion and/or metal compound selected from the group consisting of thallium, lead and cobalt.

A heteroaromatic nitrile is prepared in a high selectivity and yield by catalytically reacting an alkyl-substituted heteroaromatic compound with molecular oxygen and ammonia in a molar ratio of oxygen to ammonia of not larger than 1.6:1 in a gaseous phase in the presence of a catalyst comprising a vanadium-phosphorus oxide of the formula:

Process for preparing nitriles

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