Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Toshiya Aoki

Tokitaka Kaneshima

Shinsuke Fukuoka

Hiroshi Ishida

Kiyoshi Kawakami

Kazumasa Otsubo

Yu Nitto

Disclosed is a method for producing glycine, which comprises subjecting an aqueous solution of glycinonitrile to a hydrolysis reaction in a hydrolysis reaction system under the action of a microbial enzyme, thereby converting the glycinonitrile to glycine while by-producing ammonia, wherein the hydrolysis reaction system contains at least one organic impurity compound inhibiting the microbial enzyme, wherein the organic impurity compound has a molecular weight of 95 or more and contains at least one member selected from the group consisting of a nitrile group, a carboxyl group, an amide group, an amino group, a hydroxyl group and a trimethyleneamine structure, and wherein the hydrolysis reaction is performed under conditions wherein, during the hydrolysis reaction, the content of the organic impurity compound inhibiting the microbial enzyme in the hydrolysis reaction system is maintained at a level of 10% by weight or less, based on the weight of the hydrolysis reaction system.

Process for producing glycine

Disclosed is an olefin polymerization catalyst comprising: a transition metal compound comprising one transition metal selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr and Hf, and at least two ligands, wherein one ligand is a group having a cyclopentadienyl skeleton, and the remaining at least one ligand is a monovalent, bidentate, anionic chelating ligand having two coordinating atoms each coordinated to the transition metal, one of which atoms is selected from the group consisting of O, S, Se and Te, and the other of which atoms is selected from the group consisting of N, S, Se and Te, and wherein one of the remaining at least one ligand is optionally bonded to the group having a cyclopentadienyl skeleton through a bridging group. Also disclosed is a method for efficiently producing an olefin homopolymer or olefin copolymer by using this catalyst. By polymerizing an olefin using the olefin polymerization catalyst of the present invention, there can be advantageously produced an olefin homopolymer having a narrow molecular weight distribution or an olefin copolymer having not only a narrow molecular weight distribution but also a uniform copolymerization distribution. The produced polymer has high impact strength, high resistance to stress cracking, high transparency, excellent heat sealing properties at low temperatures, high blocking resistance, low tackiness, low extractability and the like.

Olefin polymerization catalyst

Disclosed is an olefin polymerization method using a highly active catalyst comprising a transition metal selected from metals of Groups IIIA including the lanthanide series, IVA, VA, VIA, VIIA and VIII of the Periodic Table of the Elements, and ligands L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 bonded thereto, wherein a combination of L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 is (1) a combination of ligand L.sup.1 which is a group containing at least one phosphorus-containing group and ligand L.sup.2 which is a ligand having a .sigma.-bond, or a ligand having a .sigma.-bond and a bond selected from at least one .pi.-bond and at least one lone electron pair donative bond; (2) a combination of ligand L.sup.1 which is a 5-membered heterocyclic pentadentate ligand having one or more heteroatoms and ligand L.sup.2 which is a ligand having a .sigma.-bond, or a ligand having a .sigma.-bond and a bond selected from at least one .pi.-bond and at least one lone electron pair donative bond, provided that when the pentadentate ligand contains only one heteroatom, L.sup.2 is a ligand having a .sigma.-bond, or a ligand having a .sigma.-bond and at least one lone electron pair donative bond; and (3) a combination of ligand L.sup.1 which is a trispyrazolyl tridentate ligand and ligand L.sup.2 which is an alkapolyenyl ligand, and wherein each L.sup.1 contains an element of Group VB or Group VIB. By the method of the present invention, a desired olefin polymer can be produced efficiently with a high productivity per unit by weight of the catalyst.

Olefin polymerization method using a highly active catalyst having a

A method for producing aliphatic O-arylurethanes by the reaction of an aliphatic primary amine with an aromatic hydroxyl compound and urea. Ammonia produced as a by-product in the reaction is removed during the reaction so that the ammonia concentration of the reaction solution is maintained at 2 wt % or less.

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Toshiya Aoki