Abstract: Pure (meth)acrylic acid and lower (meth)acrylates are prepared from crude (meth)acrylic acid by a process in which I) crude (meth)acrylic acid is separated by crystallization in at least one crystal batch A and at least one mother liquor B and II) at least a part of the crystal batch A is removed as pure (meth)acrylic acid and at least a part of the mother liquor B is used for the preparation of lower (meth)acrylates by esterifying (meth)acrylic acid with the corresponding alcohols in the presence of an acidic catalyst.
Abstract: In a process for the metal-catalyzed preparation of copolymers of carbon monoxide and an olefinically unsaturated compound having from 2 to 20 carbon atoms in an aqueous medium, the copolymerization is carried out in the presence of a water-soluble macromolecular host compound which has a hydrophobic cavity and a hydrophilic shell.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 23, 2002
Publication date:
December 26, 2002
Applicant:
BASF Akiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Markus Schmid, Reinhold J. Leyrer, Mubarik Mahmood Chowdhry, Marc Oliver Kristen
Abstract: A process for preparing polymers of N-vinyl compounds comprises polymerizing the vinyl compounds in the presence of free radicals of the formula I
where Q is NR2 or S and T is CR3R4 or S and R1, R2, R3 and R4 can be identical or different and are, independently of one another, hydrogen, C1-C20-alkyl or C6-C18-aryl.