Rohm Gmbh

Wolfgang Gaenzler

Guenter Schroeder

Klaus Kabs

Siegmund Besecke

Hermann-Josef Siegert

Ehrenfried Baumgartner

What is disclosed is a continuous one-step method for the preparation of isobutyric acid or a lower alkyl ester thereof by the Koch synthesis, which method comprises reacting propylene, carbon monoxide, and water or a lower alcohol, in the gaseous and liquid phases, in the presence of hydrogen fluoride as a Koch catalyst, at a temperature between 80.degree. C. and 160.degree. C., at a dwell time of the liquid phase of less than 20 minutes, and with a high degree of backmixing, while maintaining the content of propylene in the reaction mixture at less than one percent by weight of the liquid phase, wherein all or part of the propylene, carbon monoxide, and water or lower alcohol can be replaced by binary addition compounds formed pairwise between these materials. In the alternative, isopropylformiate can be continuously rearranged in the presence of hydrogen fluoride to produce isobutyric acid.

Method for making isobutyric acid

Flame retarded polyacrylimide or polymethacrylimide resin foams containing at least 70 percent by weight of cyclic acrylimide or methacrylimide units and incorporating at least 1 percent by weight of phosphorus, present at least partially in the form of a phosphorus compound, XCH.sub.2 --PO(OR).sub.2, wherein R is methyl, ethyl, or chloromethyl, and X is hydrogen, halogen, hydroxyl, or RO--CO--.

Flame-retarded polyacrylamide or polymethacrylimide synthetic resin foam

What is disclosed is a method for making amides of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen or methyl,

Preparation of carboxylic acid amides

In the method of making a compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein X is carboxyl, a carboxylic acid ester group --COOR.sub.2, or cyano, by reaction of a compound of the formula CH.sub.3 CH.sub.2 X with methylal in the presence of a catalyst, the improvement wherein said catalyst is a catalyst system which consists essentially of (1) silicon dioxide dosed with a basic component and (2) a member selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide and titanium dioxide.

Method for making methacrylic acid, its nitrile and its esters

A method for making a carbonic acid ester of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is --CH.sub.3, --C.sub.2 H.sub.5, or --C.sub.3 H.sub.7, which comprises reacting the corresponding alcohol, ROH, with carbon monoxide and oxygen, under pressure and at elevated temperature, in the presence of a copper-containing catalyst, said catalyst being a complex formed between copper-I-chloride and vanadium trichloride, chromium trichloride, iron trichloride, cobalt-II-chloride, aluminum trichloride, or silicon tetrachloride.

Method of making carbonic acid esters

An improved method for making glycol monoesters and diesters of carboxylic acid by the reaction of an olefin and oxygen in the presence of a carboxylic acid and a catalyst, wherein said catalyst includes a compound of a metal of groups IVB - VIIB having an atomic number between 40 and 42 inclusive or between 72 and 75 inclusive, i.e. zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, hafnium, tantalum, tungsten, or rhenium.

Method for preparing glycol esters

A process for the catalytic oxycarbonylation of ethylene and propylene by reaction with carbon monoxide and oxygen in a methanolic or ethanolic reaction medium employing a catalyst which contains a compound of vanadium, chromium, iron, cobalt, nickel or copper and chloride, bromide, or iodide ions.

Method for the oxycarbonylation of ethylene and propylene

A method for preparing carbonic acid esters, ##EQU1## by reacting an alcohol, ROH, with carbon monoxide and oxygen in the presence of a catalyst comprising a copper salt, chloride or bromide, and an organic phosphorus compound such as a phosphine oxide, phosphite, phosphate, or phosphonate.

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Darmstadt-Arheilgen, Germany

Wolfgang Gaenzler