Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Incorporated

Tadamitsu Kiyoura

Yasuo Kogure

Kazuo Kanaya

Tokio Nagayama

Masanobu Ajioka

Kazuhiro Terada

Fujio Matsuda

Toshihide Suzuki

Naoshi Fujimoto

Tadatoshi Honda

Motoo Kawamata

Makoto Kotani

Kazushi Ohshima

Akihide Kudoh

Takazo Kato

Takashi Jimbo

Jimbo Takashi

Jimbo, Takashi

Upon subjecting trimethylamine with ammonia and optionally, a methylamine to a disproportioning reaction to reduce the proportion of the trimethylamine, use of a zeolite as a catalyst, said zeolite being mordenite, clinoptilolite or the like at least 80% of whose ion-exchangeable cations being in the form of hydrogen ions, makes it possible to efficiently conduct the reaction at a low reaction temperatures and also to suppress by-production of impurities such as acetonitrile.

Disproportionating method of trimethylamine

A method for selectively preparing dimethylamine and monomethylamine, while the production of trimethylamine is inhibited to a sufficiently low level. The method comprises carrying out a gaseous reaction of methanol and ammonia by the use of a mordenite modified with a silylating agent by a silylation treatment in a liquid phase. According to the present invention, recycling trimethylamine is unnecessary, and the amount of steam or the like to be used can be decreased.

Method for preparing methylamines

Methanol is decomposed in the presence of a catalyst containing chromium oxide and zinc oxide as main components and containing a compound of at least one element selected from the group consisting of alkali metals, alkali earth metals and lanthanides, while contents of iron and nickel in the catalyst are each maintained at 0.5% by weight or less. This process is characterized by (1) being excellent in stability at high temperatures, (2) preventing the catalyst from deteriorating, (3) inhibiting the production of by-products, and (4) obtaining a gas in which the CO/H.sub.2 ratio is high.

Process for decomposition of methanol

A catalyst for producing maleic anhydride by oxidation of n-butane comprising V,P and additionally Mg or Zr is prepared by

Catalyst for producing maleic anhydride from butane and process for

Chlorine can be efficiently produced at a low temperature and with a high hourly space velocity by oxidizing hydrogen chloride with an oxygen-containing gas in the presence of a catalyst obtained by calcining a compound, which has in turn been obtained by reacting chromium nitrate, chromium chloride, the chromium salt of an organic acid or the like with ammonia, or by calcining a mixture of the compound and a silicon compound, preferably, at a temperature lower than 800.degree. C.

Production process of chlorine

A cayalyst precursor is produced by reacting V.sub.2 O.sub.4 with phosphoric acid in an organic solvent in the presence of a polyol. The catalyst precursor is calcined to obtain a catalyst having a high density, highly attrition-resistance and a large specific surface area and requiring only a low temperature for the oxidation of butane.

Process for producing catalyst precursor and corresponding catalyst

Manufacturing process of chlorine

A process for the preparation of 2-keto-L-gulonic acid by the oxidation of L-sorbose with an oxygen-containing gas in water used as the solvent, wherein the reaction is carried out in the presence of a specific catalyst, preferably with the pH of the reaction fluid kept within the range of 6 to 10. The catalyst contains platinum and/or palladium, as well as lead or bismuth. 2-Keto-L-gulonic acid is a compound which is useful as a precursor of vitamin C.

Process for the preparation of 2-keto-L-gulonic acid

A process for the preparation of indoles which comprises reacting aniline or a derivative thereof with a 1,2-glycol in the presence of a catalyst comprising silver supported on a carrier having a specific surface area of not less than 10 m.sup.2 /g.

Process for the preparation of indoles

A process for the preparation of indole and derivatives thereof wherein an aniline is reacted with a 1,2-glycol in the liquid phase in the presence of a catalyst containing metallic copper and/or copper oxide. The present ivention makes it possible to prepare indole and derivatives thereof in a single step by using inexpensive starting materials.

A novel process for producing pyruvic acid is provided in which process hydroxyacetone is oxidized with a molecular oxygen-containing gas in a water-containing or aqueous solvent in the presence of a catalyst. The catalysts useful for the above oxidation reaction are those composed of either at least one metal selected from the group consisting of platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, and rhenium, or the at least one metal admixed with at least one element selected from the group consisting of silver, tellurium, tin, bismuth, lead and indium or with a compound of the at least one element. The resulting pyruvate can be effectively isolated in the form of a solid by concentrating the reaction solution and adding the concentrate to isopropyl alcohol.

Process for producing pyruvic acid

A salt of pyruvic acid is formed by oxidizing a salt of lactic acid with an oxygen-containing gas in a water-containing solvent in the presence of a catalyst. The catalyst used herein comprises (a) at least one component selected from platinum and palladium and (b) at least one component selected from lead, tin, tellurium, indium, bismuth, and compounds of these elements. The resulting pyruvate is isolated in the form of a solid by concentrating the catalyst-free reaction mixture and then mixing isopropyl alcohol therewith.

Process for producing salts of pyruvic acid

This invention relates to a process for the selective ortho-alkylation of a phenolic compound having at least one ortho-positioned a hydrogen atom by catalytically reacting the phenolic compound with an alcohol in the vapor phase. In this process, the reaction of the phenolic compound with the alcohol is carried out at a temperature of from 300.degree. to 550.degree. C. in the presence of a mixed oxide catalyst of manganese, silicon, and one or more additives selected from the group consisting of magnesium oxide, calcium oxide, strontium oxide, and barium oxide. The catalyst used in this invention exhibits not only excellent catalytic activity in the selective ortho-alkylation of phenols but also continuous stability of the activity, good shapability, and good mechanical strength.

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Tadamitsu Kiyoura