Abstract: This invention describes novel ketals of .alpha.-oximinoketones, methods for the preparation of these compounds and includes novel intermediates formed during the production thereof. The novel class of compounds disclosed herein includes both .alpha.-oximinoketals, as well as the cyclic ketals of .alpha.-oximinoketones. This invention also discloses a novel class of .alpha.-nitrosoketal dimers produced during the synthesis of the corresponding .alpha.-oximinoketals, and it also discloses novel methods in the production thereof.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 13, 1978
Date of Patent:
June 3, 1980
Assignee:
Allied Chemical Corporation
Inventors:
Milorad M. Rogic, Michael D. Swerdloff, Timothy R. Demmin
Abstract: The present invention relates to the oxidation of cyclohexane with molecular oxygen in a series of reaction zones, with vaporization of cyclohexane from the last reactor effluent and parallel distribution of this cyclohexane vapor among the series of reaction zones.