Abstract: The present invention relates to “a microwave induced process for the preparation of 4-vinylphenols or its derivatives” in which commercially important FEMA GRAS approved perfumery and flavouring vinylphenols (i.e. hydroxystyrenes) namely 4-vinylguaiacol (FEMA GRAS No. 2675) and 4-vinylphenol (FEMA GRAS No. 3739) as well as other useful vinylphenols such as 2,6-dimethoxy-4-vinylphenol, 2-hydroxy-4-vinylphenol, 3-hydroxy-4-vinylphenol etc. by condensation of malonic acid and 4-hydroxyphenylaldehydes or its derivatives.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of 1-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-propan-2-ol enantiomersthrough enzymatic resolution by a lipase.

Abstract: A method for preparing hydroxyaromatic compounds brominated in the para-position, such as p-bromophenol, is disclosed. The method yields overall high process selectivity through isomeric equilibration and separation of the brominated products, thereby eliminating the need for high para selectivity in the products of catalytic oxybromination reactions of hydroxyaromatic compounds using oxygen, a bromine source, and an acidic medium in the presence of a metal catalyst. Furthermore, the invention provides an efficient method for recycling the metal catalyst, as well as reagents used in the bromination, to further reactions.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved process for preparation of 2-phenyl ethanol. More specifically, the present invention relates to a process for preparing 2-phenyl ethanol by catalytic transfer hydrogenation of styrene oxide, in the presence of a supported transition metal catalyst. The catalyst system comprises of a palladium supported on silica, alumina, clay or charcoal.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for obtaining directly polymerisable vinyl chloride which consists in subjecting a cooled raw product derived from of pyrolysis of 1,2-dichloroethane, to another cooling process at a temperature not more than 40° C., under pressure ranging between 10 to 15 bars then in leaving it at substantially identical temperature and pressure levels for a duration not more than 20 minutes. The invention also concerns a device for implementing the method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing optically active ?-nitroalcohols wherein nitroaldol reactions of aldehydes and nitroalkanes are carried out in the presence of a base and an optically active metal complex catalyst represented by the following formula (c): (where R4, R5, and R6 represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, an acyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, or an aryloxycarbonyl group, and R5 and R6 may be linked together to form a ring; X* represents a hydrocarbon group having an asymmetric carbon atom or axial asymmetry; M represents a cobalt ion or a chromium ion; and Y represents an anion capable of forming a salt when the valence of M is larger than that of a ligand).

Abstract: A process for extracting phenol from a phenol-containing aqueous solution is disclosed. The process entails contacting the aqueous solution with an extracting agent that comprise a mixture of 60 to 99% of methyl isobutyl ketone, 1 to 40% of anisole and 0 to 20% of mesitylene.

Abstract: A method of producing 1,1-bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexane comprising: crystallizing a phenol adduct of 1,1-bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexane from a solution comprising 1,1-bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexane and phenol; washing the phenol adduct with a washing solution comprising phenol and water; decomposing by heating the washed phenol adduct in an aqueous solvent to remove phenol from the phenol adduct, thereby obtaining pure 1,1-bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-3,3,5-trimethylcyclohexane.

Abstract: The catalytic hydrogenation of HBA and/or HMPA is improved by either or both of (1) increasing the temperature in the hydrogenation zone from about 50 to 70° C. at the inlet to above 80° C. at the outlet and (2) raising the pH of the hydrogenation feed to 4.5–6.0 before hydrogenation.

Abstract: There is provided a process for the manufacture of phenolic compounds by separating a neutralized aralkyl hydroperoxide cleavage mass stream containing salts of neutralization into a crude ketone stream and a crude phenolic stream containing the salts of neutralization; separating the crude phenolic stream into a concentrated phenolic-rich stream, enriched in phenolic compounds, and a crude phenolic bottoms stream enriched in tars and alpha methyl styrene dimers, each compared to the crude phenolic stream, said crude phenolic bottoms stream containing salts of neutralization; to the crude phenolic bottoms stream, adding water and a diluent composition, thereby forming a phase separable crude phenolic bottoms stream, said diluent composition comprised of hydrocarbons phase compatible with the crude phenolic bottoms stream and having a combined density lower than the density of the crude phenolic bottoms stream; separating the separable crude phenolic bottoms stream into a hydrocarbon phase and an aqueous phase

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing alcohols by hydroformylation of olefins or olefin mixtures, separation from the catalyst and subsequent hydrogenation, with an extraction being carried out after removal of the catalyst and before the hydrogenation of the aldehydes.

Abstract: A method for treating tar separated from a liquid containing an aromatic hydroxybenzene obtained by acidolysis of a liquid containing an aromatic hydroperoxide, which comprises dissolving the tar with an alkaline aqueous solution.

Abstract: A system and method for producing bisphenol-A (BPA) is provided. In particular, the present invention provides a system and method of producing bisphenol-A wherein the phase equilibrium behavior of a feed solution to a crystallizer is selectively controlled and adjusted to provide desired results. This provides a powerful tool, whereby certain operating conditions or variables of the bisphenol-A process can be selectively adjusted to generate desired phase equilibrium behavior. In general, bisphenol-A is produced from a reaction of phenol and acetone, forming a product solution including phenol, bisphenol-A, isomers of bisphenol-A, unreacted reactants and by-products. A solvent is provided in the product solution and the amount and composition of solvent in the product solution are selectively controlled to adjust the composition of the product solution fed to a crystallizer such that either crystalline bisphenol-A, or an adduct of bisphenol-A and phenol is crystallized from the product solution.

Abstract: An environmentally friendly methods for making 2,4-dinitrophenyl compound comprising, providing a nitromalondialdehyde, providing a nitroacetone, reacting the nitromalondialdehydes with the nitroacetone to produce a mixture, and subjecting the mixture to a cyclodehydrative mechanism to produce environmentally friendly 2,4-dinitrophenyl compound. Embodiments of the present invention include the 2,4-dinitrophenyl compound produced by the methods of described above.

Abstract: The orthoalkylation catalyst for phenols of the invention is one produced by calcining a catalyst precursor comprising basic magnesium carbonate (a) and magnesium oxide (b) optionally together with manganese oxalate (c), the basic magnesium carbonate (a) and magnesium oxide (b) being mixed together at a weight ratio ((a)/(b)) of 20/80 to 80/20. The process for producing an orthoalkylated phenol according to the invention comprises performing a vapor phase reaction of a phenol with an alkyl alcohol in the presence of the above orthoalkylation catalyst so that an orthoalkylated phenol is obtained. The invention enables obtaining an orthoalkylation catalyst for phenols which has high activity and high selectivity, has long catalytic life and exhibits more stable catalytic life than those of conventional orthoalkylation catalysts for phenols.

Abstract: The process of the present invention comprises a first step in which crude molten bisphenol A containing phenol is supplied to a flash evaporator and separated into a gaseous phase comprising phenol and a liquid phase comprising bisphenol A and residual phenol, and a second step in which the liquid phase obtained in the first step is heated by a thin film evaporator and separated into a gaseous phase comprising phenol and a liquid phase comprising concentrated bisphenol A and residual phenol, part of the liquid phase obtained in the second step being circulated to the first step and supplied to the flash evaporator along with crude molten bisphenol A. It is possible with this process to obtain high-quality bisphenol A stably from phenol-containing bisphenol A.

Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to improve thermal stability of bisphenol compounds. The resolving means of the invention is to include a pyridine compound in bisphenol compounds.

Abstract: Citalopram can be industrially and economically produced and at a high yield by reacting a compound of the following formula [VI] with 3-(dimethylamino)propyl chloride in the presence of at least one of N,N,N?,N?-tetramethylethylenediamine and 1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone and a condensing agent. The compound of the following formula [III], which is a key compound for the production of citalopram, can be easily produced by subjecting the compound of the following formula [II] to reduction and cyclization.

Abstract: The invention provides a process by which ultra low salt content triiodinated aromatic compounds may be isolated from a highly acidic hot triiodination raction reaction medium in a straightforward fashion. The process involves increasing the pH to above 5 a value in the range of 3 to 7 with sodium hydroxide, addition of sodium bisulphite and/or sodium dithionite, addition of seed crystals, cooling slowly, and washing the collected precipitate with water.

Abstract: Phenoxyalkylcarboxylic acid derivative represented by the following formula, wherein R1 indicates hydrogen atom, methyl group or ethyl group, m is an integer from 2 to 5, and n is an integer from 3 to 8, X1 and X2 each independently represent sulfur atom, oxygen atom, sulfinyl group or sulfonyl group, proviso X1 and X2 are not simultaneously oxygen atom; their alkali salts and hydrates thereof are useful as antiallergic agents.