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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Wolfgang F. Hölderich, Frankenthal, DE;
Gerd Dahlhoff, Bergheim, DE;
Andre Sbresny, Aachen, DE;
Hiroshi Ichihashi, Otsu, JP;
Assignee:
Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C07D / ;
Abstract
A process is provided for producing &egr;-caprolactam from cyclohexanone oxime. The process comprises a evaporation step of a mixture of cyclohexanone oxime and a solvent by introducing the mixture into a fluidized bed in which inert particles is fluidized by an inert gas, the particles having heat enough to evaporate the mixture; and a rearrangement step of cyclohexanone oxime in the evaporated mixture into &egr;-caprolactam by a gas phase Beckmann rearrangement reaction using a solid catalyst, excluding a catalyst consisting of a boric acid or a boron oxide.