Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Dow Agrosciences LLC

Patrick Ho Sing Au-Yeung

Edward D Daugs

Daniel A Hickman

Barry B Fish

Timothy Charles Frank

Erich J Molitor

Shawn D Feist

Andrei S Merenov

Terrence McCabe

Abraham D Schuitman

David Jean

Stacie L Santhany

Jason Lee Bronkema

Mukund R Patel

Michael Lee Trippeer

Jason L Trumble

Gerald W Dare

Todd William Toyzan

Bruce Stephen Holden

Daniel Alan Hickman

Robin Keith Johnston

A process for the production of 2-butoxyethyl benzoate from benzoic acid and 2-butoxy ethanol wherein at least a portion of the crude reaction product is fed to a distillation column comprising a dividing wall or a pasteurizing section.

Process for the production of high purity glycol esters

The instant invention provides a process for separating one or more aliphatic diamines from reductive amination reaction solvents and impurities, and aliphatic diamines obtained via such a process. The process for separating one or more aliphatic diamines from reductive amination reaction solvents and impurities according to the instant invention comprises the steps of: (1) feeding one or more cycloaliphatic cyanoaldehydes, hydrogen, ammonia, and optionally one or more solvents into a continuous reductive amination reactor system; (2) contacting said one or more cycloaliphatic cyanoaldehydes, hydrogen, and ammonia with each other in the presence of one or more heterogeneous metal based catalyst systems at a temperature in the range of from 80&#xb0; C. to about 160&#xb0; C. and a pressure in the range of from 700 to 3500 psig; (3) thereby forming a product mixture comprising one or more cycloaliphatic diamines, optionally one or more bicyclic by-products, optionally one or more cycloaliphatic aminonitriles, optionally one or more cycloaliphatic aminoalcohols, optionally one or more oligomeric by-products, ammonia, water, hydrogen, and optionally one or more solvents; (4) removing said product mixture from the reactor system; (5) removing at least a portion of said ammonia, said hydrogen, or mixture thereof from said product mixture via distillation; (6) removing at least a portion of said water and said one or more optional solvents via distillation; (7) removing at least a portion of one or more optional bicyclic by-products via distillation; (8) removing one or more optional cycloaliphatic aminonitriles, one or more optional cycloaliphatic aminoalcohols, one or more optional oligomeric by-products via distillation; and (9) thereby separating said one or more cycloaliphatic diamines from said product mixture.

Process for separating one or more aliphatic diamines from reductive amination reaction solvents and impurities

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Patrick Ho Sing Au-Yeung