Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Shinzaburo Masaki

Akira Fukasawa

Akira Takeshita

Tatsuo Kaneoya

Norio Kotera

Osamu Maruyama

Kenji Saito

Takashi Kamikawa

Yuzo Maegawa

Kazuhiko Takahashi

Takeo Fujii

Masakatsu Yoshimura

Tooru Tokumaru

Masashi Kamitamari

Hiroshi Yoshihara

Masahito Sekiguchi

Kazuhiro Tada

Eiji Yamada

Akira Murakami

Kazuya Minamisaka

Takashi Miyaoka

Masatoshi Uegaki

Takashi Kawai

Norio Serizawa

Junji Shiraiwa

Kunihisa Goto

Process for producing 5-amino-3-methylpyrazole

There is disclosed a process for the production of N-substituted carbazoles with high efficiency, in which a carbazole compound is reacted with an appropriate halogenated compound in an inert solvent in the presence of an acid-removing agent and an amine without using any quaternary ammonium salt which is required in the conventional process.

Process for production of N-substituted carbazoles

Method of treating a hydroperoxide mixture containing both a primary and tertiary aromatic hydroperoxide, by treating the mixture with an alkali and an organic quaternary ammonium salt. This treatment selectively reduces the content of the primary hydroperoxide in the mixture.

Treatment of hydroperoxide mixture

Process for producing hydroxy-containing alkylated aromatic compounds by the liquid phase reaction of an aromatic compound having at least one hydroxyl group with an alkylating agent in the presence of a heteropoly acid and water.

Method for producing hydroxy-containing alkylated aromatic compounds

A method for purifying 1-aminoanthraquinone which comprises previously subjecting a crude 1-aminoanthraquinone to a removal treatment of inorganic impurities so that their content is reduced to not more than 4 wt. % as converted to ash basis or to a removal treatment of iodine-consuming reductive inorganic impurities so that their content is reduced to not more than 2 wt. % as converted to consumed iodine basis, and then rectifying the 1-aminoanthraquinone.

Method for purifying 1-aminoanthraquinone

A process for producing aminophenyl-.beta.-hydroxyethylsulfone of the formula (I), ##STR1## which comprises the following steps: (1) condensing nitrohalobenzene with mercaptoethanol in the presence of an alkali hydroxide and at least one reaction medium selected from N-alkyl-substituted amides and sulfoxides to produce mononitrophenyl-.beta.-hydroxyethylsulfide of the formula (II): ##STR2## (2) oxidizing the mononitrophenyl-.beta.-hydroxyethylsulfide (II) to produce mononitrophenyl-.beta.-hydroxyethylsulfone of the formula (III): ##STR3## and (3) reducing the mononitrophenyl-.beta.-hydroxyethylsulfone to produce the aminophenyl-.beta.-hydroxyethylsulfone of the formula (I). This compound is useful as an intermediate for aminophenyl-.beta.-sulfatoethylsulfone represented by the following formula: ##STR4## which is an important intermediate for vinyl sulfone type reactive dyes largely used for dyeing cellulose fiber materials.

Process for producing aminophenyl-.beta.-hydroxyethylsulfone

Anthraquinone is nitrated using a mixed acid comprising sulfuric acid and nitric acid, the concentration of sulfuric acid being 70 to 76% by weight and the amount of nitric acid being 33 to 55% by weight based on the total weight of sulfuric acid and nitric acid, whereby 1-nitroanthraquinone is obtained in a high yield and a high purity.

Method for producing 1-nitroanthraquinone

A process for producing 1-nitroanthraquinone with high purity which comprises treating crude 1-nitroanthraquinone containing as the main impurities dinitroanthraquinones and .beta.-nitroanthraquinone with an alkali sulfite in an aqueous medium under heating and which is characterized in that the crystals of the crude 1-nitroanthraquinone are pulverized by the aid of a pulverizer, a fine pulverizer or an ultra-fine pulverizer prior to and/or during the treatment with the aqueous alkali sulfite; and a process for producing 1-aminoanthraquinone which comprises subjecting the reaction mixture obtained by the said treatment with the alkali sulfite solution mentioned above, if necessary after further fine pulverization, to a reaction with a reducing agent, or ammonia or an aliphatic or aromatic amine.

Production of 1-nitroanthraquinone and 1-aminoanthraquinone

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Ooita, Japan

Shinzaburo Masaki