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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 02, 1999
Robert E. Greenwell, Mount Vernon, IN (US);
Thomas Link Guggenheim, Mt. Vernon, IN (US);
Norman Enoch Johnson, Mount Vernon, IN (US);
Roy Ray Odle, Mt. Vernon, IN (US);
Jimmy Lynn Webb, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
General Electric Co., Pittsfield, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a process for recovering a metal nitrite, e.g., sodium nitrite, from a reaction mixture formed from an aromatic displacement reaction such as the synthesis of an aromatic bis(ether phthalimide) in an organic non-polar solvent. The process comprises forming a reaction mixture from the synthesis of an aromatic bis(ether phthalimide) comprising a recoverable amount of metal nitrite; treating the reaction mixture with an amount of water effective to produce an aqueous solution phase of metal nitrite and an organic non-polar phase; and separating the aqueous solution phase of metal nitrite from the organic non-polar phase.