Koppers Company, Inc.

Samuel N Holter

Hans Dressler

Nancy Znidarsic

Rust preventives are provided comprising divalent metal salts of the formula: ##STR1## wherein the R groups are independently selected from methyl, hydrogen, and decyl of the formula: ##STR2## wherein n=0 to 3; and wherein from two to three R groups are decyl, zero to two R groups are methyl, and zero to two R groups are hydrogen; and M is a divalent metal selected from Mg, Ca, Ba, and Zn. Useful intermediates for preparing the said rust preventives are also provided.

Rust preventives

A process is provided for recovering the crystallization medium used for separating a 2,6-disubstituted phenol (DSP) from a feedstock containing it and a phenol in which only one of the 2 or 6 carbon positions are substituted (MSP). More particularly, the process comprises crystallizing said DSP from said feedstock with a water miscible non solvent crystallization medium, separating the resultant DSP crystals from said crystallization medium and feedstock, washing said DSP crystals with crystallization medium, washing said DSP crystals with water, passing the aforesaid wash water and crystallization medium along with the crystallization medium and feedstock from which the DSP was crystallized to an extraction means and extracting MSP with a water immiscible and crystallization medium immiscible extractant, stripping the extractant from the MSP and recycling the extractant to the extraction means and separating water from the crystallization medium of the extraction means and recycling the water for use in the water wash or extraction means and recycling the crystallization medium for the initial crystallization, the wash of the DSP crystals, or to the extraction means.

Process for recovering a crystallization medium

Mono-substituted alkylresorcinol isomers, predominantly the 5-alkylresorcinol isomer, are produced by reacting resorcinol and an aliphatic alcohol having 1-3 carbon atoms in the vapor phase in the presence of an acidic catalyst and by separating the resulting mono-substituted alkylresorcinol isomers from other alkylated hydroxyaromatic compounds and unreacted resorcinol. The molar ratio of alcohol to resorcinol is in the range of greater than 1:1 to 3:1. The reaction time in a batch operation and the liquid hourly space velocity in a continuous operation are controlled so not to allow the mono-substituted alkylresorcinol to undergo further alkylation.

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Samuel N Holter