Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.

Satoshi Maeda

Yoshihiko Abe

Sueo Kanno

Atsushi Kondo

Ryoji Hattori

Shinzi Nishimura

Para-chlorotoluene is prepared selectively at high yield by nuclear chlorination of toluene, in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst, and a co-catalyst comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of phenoxthine derivatives and highly chlorinated phenoxthine derivatives obtained by chlorinating said phenoxthine derivatives at higher degree, said phenoxthine derivatives being represented by the general formula of: ##STR1## wherein R represents methyl group or groups at the position-1 and/or position-3,

Process for the nuclear chlorination of toluene

A process for producing a xylylene glycol, which comprises reacting a xylylene dichloride with an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt of acetic acid using a tertiary amine as catalyst in the presence of an inert organic solvent to effect esterification, removing the by-product inorganic chloride and the catalyst from the organic solvent layer containing diacetoxymethylbenzene which was formed, adding to the resulting organic solvent layer an aqueous alkali solution to effect saponification, separating the aqueous solution layer containing xylylene glycol which was formed, and extracting said aqueous solution layer with an extraction solvent to recover the xylylene glycol.

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Satoshi Maeda