Idemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.

Idemitsu Kosan Company, Limited

Norio Ogata

Minoru Senga

Hiroyasu Yamato

Yoshinari Koyama

Wataru Kosaka

Tatsuya Tomioka

Daigo Shirota

Takashi Nakagawa

Tatsuya Housaki

Masao Omori

Kazuyuki Hirano

Hiroshi Nishitani

In a process for producing bisphenol A, an adduct of bisphenol A with phenol is promptly recovered in highly purity and high efficiency from a reaction mother liquor in the case of singling out bisphenol A from a reaction product. An adduct layer of bisphenol A with phenol is formed by crystallizing an adduct of bisphenol A with phenol from a solution of bisphenol A in phenol to form a slurry, the bisphenol A being produced by reacting phenol and acetone in the presence of an acid catalyst, subjecting the resultant slurry to a solid-liquid separation treatment, and thereafter removing the phenol from solid components, characterized by pouring onto a filter, a slurry solution of bisphenol A in phenol, the slurry solution containing in a crystalline state, an adduct of bisphenol A having an average particle size in the range of 0.05 to 1 mm with phenol, and filtering the slurry solution under reduced pressure in an atmosphere of an inert gas stream at 30 to 80&#xb0; C. containing oxygen in a concentration of at most 5,000 ppm by volume.

Process for producing bisphenol A

A process for efficiently manufacturing high purity polyarylene sulfide. The process comprises feeding a liquid or gaseous sulfur compound (e.g. hydrogen sulfide) to a mixture comprising lithium hydroxide and a non-lithium hydroxide solid compound (e.g. alkali metal chloride or alkaline earth metal chloride) in a non-protonic organic solvent (e.g. N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone), separating the alkali metal chloride or alkaline earth metal chloride, adjusting the sulfur content of the reaction mixture, feeding a dihalogeno aromatic compound e.g. p-dichlorobenzene) to effect a polycondensation reaction, and adding of an alkali metal hydroxide (e.g. sodium hydroxide) to recover lithium ion.

Process for manufacturing polyarylene sulfide

A polyarylene sulfide has an inherent viscosity [.eta..sub.i n h ] of 0.1 to 0.5 dl/g, a weight-average molecular weight of 1.times.10.sup.4 to 2.times.10.sup.5 ; a ratio of the inherent viscosity [.eta..sub.i n h ] to a calculated viscosity [.eta.].sub.calc ([.eta..sub.i n h /[.eta.].sub.calc) of 0.4/1 to 0.8/1; and a degree of whiteness of 50 or higher when measured in accordance with whiteness testing procedures (JIS P8123). The polyarylene sulfide is prepared by reaction by contacting at least one member of a metallic sulfide (A) selected from an alkali metal sulfide and an alkali metal hydrosulfide with a dihalogen aromatic compound (B) and an aromatic compound (C) having three or more than three functional groups in a polar solvent in a molar ratio of the dihalogen aromatic compound (B) to the metallic sulfide (A) [(B)/(A)] ranging from 1.035/1 to 1.300/1 and in a molar ratio of the aromatic compound (C) to the dihalogen aromatic compound (B) [(C)/(B)] ranging from 0.003/1 to 0.05/1. A polyarylene sulfide resin composition contains the polyarylene sulfide having the above properties and and at least one member of a filler selected from a fiber filler and a powdery or granular filler. The polyarylene sulfide resin composition has the mechanical strength, heat resistance, long-term stability, and chemical resistance superior to the polyarylene sulfide.

Polyarylene sulfide from aromatic compound having at least three

Polyarylene sulfides are produced by polymerizing a dihalogen aromatic compound with an alkali metal hydrosulfide in the presence of a lithium halide in an organic polar solvent. In this polymerization, an alkali metal hydroxide and/or carbonate is added and a branching agent such as a trihalogen aromatic compound or a halogen aromatic nitro compound is used, if desired. The polyarylene sulfides have a high molecular weight and a less salt contents and a high degree of whiteness.

Process for the production of polyarylene sulfides with lithium halide

The present invention provides a method of recovering a lithium chloride, which comprises reacting a dihalogenated aromatic compound and an alkali metal sulfide and/or alkali metal hydrogen sulfide in a polar solvent under the pressure of lithium chloride, separating a solvent insoluble component from the resultant reaction mixture to obtain a solution, and calcinating a residue obtained by removing volatile substances from the resultant solution, as well as a method of recovering a lithium chloride, which comprises reacting a dihalogenated aromatic compound and an alkali metal sulfide and/or alkali metal hydrogen sulfide in a polar solvent under the pressure of lithium chloride, separating the granular polymer ingredient from the resultant reaction mixture subjecting the liquid suspension obtained by said separation to solid-liquid separation and calcinating the residue obtained by removing volatile substances from the resultant solution component.

Method of recovering a lithium chloride

Disclosed is a process for producing stably a polyarylene sulfide of high purity and high molecular weight by contacting a dihalogeno aromatic compound with an alkali metal sulfide in a polar solvent which comprises, as a first stage, reacting a dihalogeno aromatic compound with an alkali metal sulfide in a polar solvent in the presence of a lithium compound and in the presence of substantially no water at 200.degree.-270.degree. C. with concentration of remaining alkali metal sulfide being 5.5 g/l-polar solvent or less in terms of sulfur; then adding water in an amount of 1.0-10 mols per 1 mol of said alkali metal sulfide; and, thereafter, as a second stage, carrying out the reaction at 220.degree.-280.degree. C. Preferred dihalogeno aromatic compound is p-dichlorobenzene, preferred alkali metal sulfide is sodium sulfide and/or lithium sulfide and preferred lithium compound is lithium chloride and/or lithium sulfide.

Two-stage process for production of polyarylene sulfides with lithium

Disclosed is a method for producing a polyarylene sulfide comprising contacting a dihalogenated aromatic compound with an alkali metal sulfide in a polar solvent, wherein a halogenated aromatic compound containing active hydrogen is present in the reaction system.

Method for producing polyarylene sulfide with lithium halide catalyst

A process for the production of polyesterpolycarbonate is described, which comprises reacting an aqueous alkaline solution of dihydric phenol and an organic solvent solution of acid chloride to prepare polyester oligomer, mixing chloroformate group-containing polycarbonate oligomer with the polyester oligomer, and polycondensing the polyester oligomer and the polycarbonate oligomer to form the polyesterpolycarbonate.

Process for the production of polyesterpolycarbonate

A flame retardant polycarbonate resin composition comprising a polycarbonate resin, a nuclear substituted benzoic acid containing at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of thiosalicylic acid and dihydroxy benzoic acid, and tetrabromobisphenol A or ##STR1## .

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Norio Ogata