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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 1992
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1989
Shuichi Mitamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshimi Kata, Kanagawa, JP;
Koichi Fujishiro, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi, Kanagawa, JP;
Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Steel Chemical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A process for the preparation of aromatic carboxylic acids or their salts comprises heating carboxyl-free aromatic compounds and aromatic carboxylic acid salts whose basic structures differ from those of the aromatic compounds, or heating polycyclic aromatic compounds with three or more rings and monocyclic or bicyclic aromatic carboxylic acid salts, under carbon dioxide pressure in the presence of one or more metal compounds selected from group (a) of compounds of zinc, cadmium, and thallium and one or more compounds selected from group (b) of compounds of cesium, Group II metals, And Group IIIa metals to effect the intermolecular transfer of the carboxyl groups.