Hydrolysis of alkyl dicarboxylates
US5312981A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 20, 1993 |
| Grant date | May 17, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 20, 2013 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02P20/10
- WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Dicarboxylic acids, e.g., adipic acid, are prepared by reactively distilling and hydrolyzing admixture of a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl aliphatic dicarboxylate and water, e.g., dimethyl adipate/water admixture, in liquid phase, in a distillation column, the lower end of which distillation column being charged with a gel of a crosslinked styrene/divinylbenzene resin bearing sulfonic acid substituents, the amount by weight of divinylbenzene comprising such resin ranging from 1% to 12% based on the total weight thereof and such resin having an exchange capacity of from 3 to 6.5 milliequivalents H.sup.+ /gram of dry resin, and including introducing the dicarboxylate/water admixture into the middle region of the column, withdrawing dicarboxylic acid from the base thereof and overhead distilling the alcohol of hydrolysis.
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