Abstract: This invention relates to a process for producing N-aryl-2-lactams, N-alkyl-2-lactams, and N-cycloalkyl-2-lactams by reductive amination of lactones with aryl or alkyl nitro compounds utilizing a metal catalyst, which is optionally supported.
Abstract: This invention relates to a process for producing N-aryl-2-lactams and N-cycloalkyl-2-lactams by reductive amination of lactones with aryl amines utilizing a metal catalyst, which is optionally supported.
Abstract: This invention relates to a process for producing 5-methyl-N-(methyl aryl)-2-pyrrolidone, 5-methyl-N-(methyl cycloalkyl)-2-pyrrolidone and 5-methyl-N-alkyl-2-pyrrolidone by reductive amination of levulinic acid esters with aryl or alkyl cyano compounds utilizing a metal catalyst, which is optionally supported.
Abstract: This invention relates to a process for producing 5-methyl-N-(methyl aryl)-2-pyrrolidone, 5-methyl-N-(methyl cycloalkyl)-2-pyrrolidone and 5-methyl-N-alkyl-2-pyrrolidone by reductive amination of levulinic acid esters with aryl or alkyl cyano compounds utilizing a metal catalyst, which is optionally supported.
Abstract: The invention relates to the synthesis of alkenoate esters from a corresponding lactone and an alcohol in the presence of a basic catalyst. More specifically, this invention relates to the synthesis of methyl-4-pentenoate ester from 5-methyl butyrolactone and methanol.
Abstract: This invention relates to a process for producing N-aryl-2-lactams, N-alkyl-2-lactams, and N-cycloalky-2-lactams by reductive amination of lactones with aryl or alkyl nitro compounds utilizing a metal catalyst, which is optionally supported.
Abstract: This invention relates to a process for producing N-aryl-2-lactams and N-cycloalkyl-2-lactams by reductive amination of lactones with aryl amines utilizing a metal catalyst, which is optionally supported.
Abstract: This invention relates to a process for producing 5-methyl-N-aryl-2-pyrrolidone, 5-methyl-N-cycloalkyl-2-pyrrolidone, and 5-methyl-N-alkyl-2-pyrrolidone by reductive amination of levulinic acid with nitro compounds utilizing a metal catalyst, which is optionally supported.
Abstract: The present invention is directed to a polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer composition that can be readily and quickly processed into extruded and molded articles and film-based products. More specifically, the invention pertains to melt processing of polyhydroxyalkanoates which contain a novel combination of nucleant and plasticizer for enhancing crystallization rates thus causing improved processibility.
Abstract: Fluorinated dialkyl dithiophosphoric acids according to formula (I) and metallic salts thereof:
the compounds are useful, for example, as additives for lubricant compositions.
Abstract: Disclosed herein are processes for hydrocyanation and isomerization of olefins by using at least one multidentate phosphonite ligands, including organometallic phosphonite ligands with a Group VIII metal or Group VIII metal compound, and optionally, a Lewis acid promoter.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 4, 2003
Date of Patent:
May 18, 2004
Assignee:
E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company
Inventors:
Christian P. Lenges, Helen S. M. Lu, Joachim C. Ritter
Abstract: Method for making caprolactam from 6-aminocapronitrile that contains greater than 500 ppm tetrahydroazepine and its derivatives (THA) in which ammonia and water are removed from crude caprolactam in a single separation step and then THA is removed from the resulting caprolactam melt.
Abstract: Powder comprising substantially spherical particles of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of azelaic acid, sebacic acid, undecanedioic acid, dodecanedioic acid, brassylic acid, and the anhydrides of said acids, said at least one compound being distributed substantially uniformly throughout the entirety of each of said particles, said particles having a particle size distribution as follows:
d90
-
d10
d50
<
1.90
wherein:
d50 is a particle diameter at which 50% of the particles have diameters which are greater or smaller than the d50 value;
d90 is a particle diameter at which 90% of the particles have diameters which are smaller than the d90 value;
d10 is the particle diameter at which 10% of the particles have diameters which are smaller than the d10 value; and
d50 is 8 to 30 micrometers.
Abstract: A polymeric, phosphorus-containing composition made by heating, in the presence of an initiator, preferably a free radical initiator, and optionally in the presence of one or more comonomers, at least one substituted phosphonylated 2,2′-dihydroxyl-1,1′-binaphthalene or at least one substituted 2,2′-dihydroxyl-1,1′-biphenylene.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 26, 2001
Date of Patent:
December 9, 2003
Assignee:
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
Inventors:
Michel R. Gagne, Kenneth G. Moloy, Nora S. Radu, Brian P. Santora, Wilson Tam
Abstract: Process for the recovery of a purified adiponitrile (ADN) from a mixture of adiponitrile, aminocapronitrile and hexamethylenediamine, utilizing two sequential distillations: (1) a first distillation in which the mixture is distilled in a distillation column at a head pressure that causes at least 7% of the ADN to go into the distillate, along with bishexamethylenetriamine (BHMT) and 2-cyanocyclopentylideneimine (CPI), and (2) a second distillation in which the distillate from the first distillation is distilled in a second distillation column at a head pressure sufficient to cause minimum-temperature azeotropy between ADN and BHMT, thereby allowing the majority of the BHMT and CPI to be removed from the second distillation as distillate, and ADN, substantially free of both BHMT and CPI, to be removed as bottoms.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 17, 2002
Date of Patent:
July 29, 2003
Assignee:
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
Inventors:
John Ostermaier, Leon Scott, James Hastings
Abstract: Process for increasing the molecular weight of nylon 6 while reducing its content of caprolactam and other volatiles by a two-staged heating process.