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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2000
Masayasu Ishibashi, Kuma-Gun, JP;
Hiroshi Tomita, Kuga-Gun, JP;
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A process for producing an aromatic carboxylic acid by a liquid phase oxidation of an alkylaromatic compound with molecular oxygen in a reaction solvent comprising a lower aliphatic carboxylic acid in the presence of an oxidation catalyst, in which an aromatic carboxylic acid having an improved hue of the powdery product thereof and exhibiting an improved light transmittance when dissolved in an aqueous solution of a base can be produced efficiently in a simple manner by suppressing contamination due to the intermediates and by-products formed by side reactions, the said process comprising performing the liquid phase oxidation of the alkylaromatic compound in the presence of a hydrogen gas-treated liquid containing the catalyst.