Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

Basf Se Corporation

Huntsman International LLC

Sunil Sadashiv Divekar

Raghunath Vitthal Chaudhari

Ashutosh Anant Kelkar

Raj Madhukar Deshpande

Pramod Shankar Kumbhar

Bhalchandra Mahadeo Bhanage

Rahul Vasantrao Bagal

Vilas Hari Rane

Raghunath Vittal Chaudhari

Sunil Shankar Joshi

Sunil Purushottam Gupte

Sunil Sopana Tonde

Manisha Jagdeeshrao Vaidya

Amit Arwind Deshmukh

Amit Madanlal Katariya

Subramanian Ganapathy

ShreekantUttam Satav

Chandrashekar Vasant Rode

Shreekant Uttam Satav

A method of treatment of an aqueous effluent stream obtained during production of furfural is disclosed. The aqueous effluent stream containing organic solvents, furfural, and water is subjected to azeotropic distillation to obtain a distillate stream and a treated effluent stream having lower BOD and COD values which can be further reduced by biomethanation.

Method of treatment of aqueous effluent

Processes for the preparation of furfural from a xylose containing feedstock and more particularly to an elevated temperature conversion of a xylose containing feedstock to furfural in acidic conditions are described. The described process uses a mixture of two solvents in which the humins are formed and solubilized. The described process is operated in continuous mode with no significant amounts of solid by-products formation.

Preparation of Furfural using mixed solvents

The present invention provides an improved process for the liquid phase oxidation of toluene to benzaldehyde with high selectivity and good activity in an organic acid medium using a catalyst system consisting of transition metal/metals and bromide as a promoter in the presence of lean oxygen.

Selective liquid phase oxidation of toluene to benzaldehyde

Process for the synthesis of polyurethane derivatives from aromatic polyamine compounds. The method involves the reaction of an aromatic polyamine compound with CO and Oin the presence of a catalyst comprising a Group VIII or lanthanide metal on a solid support and a halogenide promoter.

Process for the synthesis of polycarbamates

The present invention provides an improved process for the production of carboxylic acids by the carbonylation of alcohol. The process involves contacting an alcohol with carbon monoxide in the presence of a nickel compound, a heterocyclic organic compound and an iodide promoter to produce the corresponding carboxylic acid. The improvement relates to the use of heterocyclic organic compound as a promoter containing at least two heteroatoms of which at least one is selected independently from S or N, which provides an inexpensive and stable catalyst system.

Process for the preparation of carboxylic acids from aliphatic alcohols

Methanol is reacted in presence of catalyst system comprising of an iron containing compound and a tin containing compound with or without an organic compound containing C, N, O, P, S, diamine, diketone, and or diphosphines as a ligand to produce acetic acid or methyl acetate. The reaction is effected in a solvent containing nitro or nitrite group.

Process for the preparation of acetic acid or methyl acetate

The present invention provides a single step process for the preparation of p-aminophenol by contacting a mixture of nitrobenzene and water with hydrogen over a solid acid catalyst, terminating the reaction to obtain a reaction mixture containing the product, extracting the reaction mixture with an organic solvent, separating the aqueous layer containing the product, and then concentrating the aqueous layer by any conventional method to obtain the product.

Single step process for the preparation of p-aminophenol

A process for the hydrogenation of organic compounds using water soluble catalyst in a biphasic media by: (A) forming an organo-water dispersion of (i) an organic phase having (a) an organic compound and (b) an organic solvent, and (ii) an aqueous phase having a water soluble group VIII metal catalyst composition and a water soluble ligand; and (B) contacting said dispersion with hydrogen to provide an interfacial reaction between said organic compound and said hydrogen, giving significant enhancement in the rate of reaction to produce saturated organic compound as compared to a reaction carried out in the absence of said water immiscible ligand.

Process for the catalytic hydrogenation of organic compounds

A process is effected using water soluble metal complex catalysts in the presence of a promoter in the organic (water immiscible) phase. The process results in the enhancement of the rate of hydroformylation by interfacial catalysis induced by the presence of a ligand (promoter) in a catalyst immiscible phase. The reaction comprises of two phases viz - organic phase and aqueous phase. The organic phase consists of an olefin and P- containing water insoluble ligand with or without water immiscible solvent. The aqueous phase consists of a metal complex catalyst comprising of group VIII element such as Rh, Ru, Ir or Co and a water soluble ligand.

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