Xanthogen disulphides

US4528388A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC · DE

Inventors

• Gunter Arend · Dormagen, DE
• Heinrich Konigshofen · Bensberg, DE
• Peter Muller · Leverkusen, DE
• Rudiger Musch · Bensberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 23, 1981
• Grant date: Jul 9, 1985
• Expiry date: Nov 23, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07D319/06
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Xanthogen disulphides of the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R and R.sub.1 independently represent hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.8 -cycloalkyl or an oxygen-containing heterocyclic ring system having from 5 to 8 ring members and optionally mono- or tri-substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, and wherein PA0 R and R.sub.1 may also be connected together to complete a hetero cyclic ring having from 3 to 6 carbon atoms and from 1 to 3 oxygen ring members, and the ring may be substituted by from 1 to 3 C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl groups, with a content of elemental sulphur of less than 1.7% by weight, a process for their production by the reaction of a xanthic acid-O-ester-alkali metal salt of the following formula: ##STR2## wherein R and R.sub.1 are as defined in claims 1 and 3, and PA1 M represents an alkali metal, with aqueous chlorine bleach liquor, characterized in that aqueous chlorine bleach liquor having a concentration of less than 0.9 mol NaOCl/kg is used, and oxidation is carried out at a temperature of from 10.degree. to 20.degree. C. and at a pH of from 8 to 12, only until from 0.1 to 5.0 mol % of the xanthic acid-O-ester-alkali metal salt, based on the qu…