Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.

Shunichi Matsumoto

Yoshihiro Shiokawa

Tadayoshi Takefumi

Nobuyuki Tokura

Susumu Fujiyama

Yoshifumi Sato

Mitsuharu Kitamura

Kinji Kato

Yuji Takamizawa

Ichiyo Ohtsuka

Tatsuhiko Yanagawa

A process for the production of a high-performance hybrid polyol ester having excellent compatibility with hydrofluorocarbons which are regarded as the most likely refrigerant and having excellent resistance to hydrolysis which esters are liable to undergo, the polyol ester having a plurality of branched fatty acid residues at least one of which has a different number of carbon atoms from that of the other branched fatty acid residue or those of the other branched fatty acid residues, the process comprising reacting at least two kinds of olefins having different numbers of carbon atoms, carbon monoxide and a polyhydric alcohol in the presence of hydrogen fluoride.

Process for the production of polyol ester and ester-containing

A process for the production of esters, comprising allowing an olefin, carbon monoxide and an alcohol to react in the presence of hydrogen fluoride, in which the esters can be produced at high yields at a low temperature for a short period of time, the esters can be easily separated from a reaction solution, hydrogen fluoride can be recycled, the esters can be produced at a low cost, a mixture of esters can be easily produced, the kinetic viscosity of the mixture of the esters can be easily adjusted and the coloring of, and an increase in the viscosity of, the esters can be prevented.

Process for the production of esters

A process for producing an aromatic acylation product from an aromatic compound, an olefin and carbon monoxide, which comprises the steps of:

Process for producing aromatic acylation product

A process for manufacturing high-purity o-toluic acid from a partial oxidation product of o-xylene is disclosed. o-Toluic acid is widely used as a raw material for agricultural chemicals, medicines, polymerization initiators, and the like. Depending on its use, 99% by weight or more purity is demanded for o-toluic acid. Hitherto, o-toluic acid having purity of higher than 99% by weight could not be obtained by fractionation, and purification by fractional crystallization was used. Fractional crystallization is, however, and expensive operation and not only gives a low yield of product but also results a large amount of waste water. The process disclosed herein gives an economical, commercial way to obtain high purity o-toluic acid. In summary, a process for the manufacture of high purity o-toluic acid which comprises: subjecting an oxidation product of o-xylene to distillation to remove therefrom low boiling point components such as unreacted o-xylene and benzoic acid, and high boiling point components, of which the major component is o-methylbenzyl o-toluate, thus obtaining crude o-toluic acid, treating said crude o-toluic acid with ammonia of an amount 1 to 1.2 mol equivalent of o-phthalic acid contained in said crude o-toluic acid, and subjecting the product thus treated to distillation is disclosed.

Process for manufacturing high-purity o-toluic acid

The present invention relates to a process for decomposing an aromatic acylated compound.HF-BF.sub.3 complex in preparing an aromatic acylated compound by decomposing an aromatic acylated compound.HF-BF.sub.3 complex obtained by reacting an aromatic compound with an acylating agent in the presence of HF-BF.sub.3 as a catalyst, which comprises subjecting the aromatic acylated compound.HF-BF.sub.3 complex to thermal decomposition in the presence of at least one aromatic hydrocarbon (A.H.) selected from benzene, toluene and chlorobenzene and at least one saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon (S.H.) selected from pentane, hexane and cyclohexane, as a decomposing agent.

Process for decomposing aromatic acylated compound.HF-BF.sub.3 complex

Alkylbenzaldehyde is continuously produced in high yield from alkylbenzene by formylation with carbon monoxide in the presence of HF--BF.sub.3, where the alkylbenzene, HF--BF.sub.3 and carbon monoxide under a carbon monoxide partial pressure of at least 5 kg/cm.sup.2 absolute are introduced into the reactor to continuously carry out complexing of the alkylbenzene with HF--BF.sub.3 and formylation with the carbon monoxide successively in one and same reactor.

Process for continuous production of alkylbenzaldehydes

A xylene mixture containing at least one of m-xylene and o-xylene is formylated by carbon monoxide in the presence of hydrogen fluoride and boron trifluoride at a molar ratio of boron trifluoride to sum total of m-xylene and o-xylene in the xylene mixture of not more than 1.5 to selectively and correspondingly produce at least one of 2,4-dimethylbenzaldehyde and 3,4-dimethylbenzaldehyde.

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Shunichi Matsumoto