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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1976
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1974
Applicant:
Inventors:
Reijer Goettsch, Beek, NL;
Abraham H De Rooij, Geleen, NL;
Assignee:
Stamicarbon, B.V., Geleen, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2602 / ;
Abstract
Polymerizable quality .epsilon.-caprolactam having an alkalinity of less than 0.05 meq. per kg. of lactam is produced in the improved disclosed process which includes extracting an aqueous lactam-rich solution with an organic solvent having a high distribution coefficient for the lactam with respect to the aqueous solution, and evaporating the lactam-rich organic solvent solution and recovering by distillation the lactam. Evaporation of the organic solvent requires considerably less thermal energy than evaporation of a similar aqueous solution.