Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.

Tadayoshi Takefumi

Yoshihiro Shiokawa

Shunichi Matsumoto

Nobuyuki Tokura

Yoshifumi Sato

Tsutomu Numoto

Kuniaki Ageishi

Etsuo Urabe

Ichiyo Ohtsuka

Tsuguji Kawabata

Tatsuhiko Yanagawa

Provided is a process for producing a plasticizer ester characterized by previously removing dissolved oxygen in a starting alcohol, and then subjecting an organic acid or its anhydride and the alcohol to an esterification reaction in the presence of an organic metal compound catalyst, which process can substantially reduce formation of coloring impurities and can easily provide a plasticizer ester having a low degree of coloring. Further, a plasticizer ester having a high volume resistivity can easily be obtained by adding an alkaline aqueous solution to a reaction product obtained by an esterification reaction to conduct neutralization of an unreacted acid and hydrolysis of the catalyst, further blowing a carbon dioxide gas to convert the residual alkali into a carbonate, recovering an excess alcohol, and then conducting purification through finefiltration using a filter aid or further in combination with adsorption treatment.

Process for producing plasticizer esters

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.

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Tadayoshi Takefumi