Monsanto Company

Thomas E Neumann

John P Chupp

Thomas E Nickson

William H Miller

Michael J Miller

Audrey Y Ku

This invention pertains to chemical intermediates for a new class of 2-haloacetanilide herbicides and a process for preparation of these intermediates. The process generally involves nitration of substituted benzotrifluoride compounds.

Chemical intermediates and a process for their preparation

This invention pertains to a process for preparing substituted and unsubstituted benzotrichlorides. The process generally involves reacting the starting compound with a perchloroalkane with presence of base and a phase transfer catalyst.

Process for preparing substituted benzotrichloride compounds

The novel reaction of 4-morpholinylmethylphosphonic acid with an aqueous alkali yields the trialkali metal salt of N-phosphonomethylglycine.

Oxidative ring cleavage process

This invention pertains to two substituted benzotrifluoride compounds useful as chemical intermediates for a new class of 2-haloacetanilide herbicides and a process for making these intermediates. The process generally involves nitration and reduction of the corresponding benzotrifluoride compound.

Substituted benzotrifluoride compounds as chemical intermediates and a

This invention relates to a process for the preparation of ortho-aminobenzotrifluoride (OABT) from benzotrifluoride (BTF). The process provides an overall route employing non-isolation of intermediates which can be run smoothly and which results in the preparation of OABT in high yields with less contamination. This process includes a catalytic halogenation step in which BTF is converted to meta-halo BTF and other mono and di-halo isomers of BTF followed by nitration in the same reaction vessel under conditions which do not favor nitration of the di-halo isomers of BTF to produce a mixture which predominates in 5-halo-2-nitro BTF. In the final step the 5-halo-2-nitro BTF present is reduced and hydrodehalogenated with H.sub.2 in the presence of a catalyst to form OABT. Recyclable BTF is also obtained from the final reaction.

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Creve Coeur, MO, United States of America

Thomas E Neumann