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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1976
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1974
Stylianos Sifniades, Madison, NJ (US);
William J Boyle, Jr, Morristown, NJ (US);
Jan F Van Peppen, Chester, NJ (US);
Allied Chemical Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Resolution of .alpha.-amino-.epsilon.-caprolactam with simultaneous racemization of the undesired .alpha.-aminocaprolactam enantiomer is effected by preferentially crystallizing the L- (or D-) .alpha.-amino-caprolactam compound in the presence of a racemization catalyst. In a narrower embodiment racemization of .alpha.-amino-.epsilon.-caprolactam is effected by alternate routes of forming a coordinately saturated aminolactam-metal complex and reacting with a strong base or reacting a mixture of an aminolactam salt and aminolactam free base with a chelating carbonyl compound and a metal ion or reacting a mixture of an aminolactam salt and aminolactam free base in the presence of a salen derivative complex.