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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 1978
Filed:
May. 16, 1977
Floro F Frulla, Wallingford, CT (US);
Adnan A Sayigh, North Haven, CT (US);
Henri Ulrich, Northford, CT (US);
Peter J Whitman, Hamden, CT (US);
The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Abstract
A process is described for the preparation of polymethylene polyphenyl polyamines containing from 40 to 60 percent by weight of diamine and also containing markedly less high molecular weight polyamines than products hitherto available. Phosgenation of the polyamines gives the corresponding mixture of polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanates of markedly lower viscosity and lighter color than products hitherto available, and yielding polymer foams which are substantially white in color. The process comprises condensing aniline and formaldehyde (molar ratio 4-10:1) in the absence of catalyst, separating water from the resulting aminal mixture, contacting the aminals at 20.degree. C to 60.degree. C with a solid catalyst (diatomaceous earths, clays, zeolites) until formation of benzylamines is substantially complete, distilling aniline from the resulting benzylamines under reduced pressure and below 150.degree. C until the aniline content is 3 to 22 percent by weight, and contacting the resulting product with a solid catalyst (diatomaceous earths, clays, zeolites) at 100.degree. C to 190.degree. C until conversion to polymethylene polyphenyl polyamines is complete.