Abstract: Benzene and/or monochlorobenzene were chlorinated with molecular chlorine to obtain paradichlorobenzene with high selectivity. A batch reactor was used for this purpose, with a highly selective catalytic system consisting of SbCl3 and a phenothiazine derivative. The entire process was improved with the introduction of a new catalytic system recovery method, which was based on returning the mother liquid containing the catalytic system to the process after prior separation from the fresh post-reaction mixture by distillation of unreacted raw materials under reduced pressure and recycling them, as well as crystallization of paradichlorobenzene from the depleted liquid after vacuum distillation.

Abstract: A method has been disclosed of obtaining high purity, colourless monochloroacetic acid encompassing the chlorination of acetic acid with chlorine in the presence of a catalyst, followed by the recovery of the catalyst through vacuum distillation and purification of the obtained liquid raw product by its hydrodehalogenation by hydrogen in the presence of a palladium catalyst and then vacuum distillation.

Abstract: A method of producing monochloroacetic acid (MCAA) has been disclosed encompassing (a) a stage of the direct chlorination of acetic acid with chlorine and (b) a stage of recovery of the catalyst in the form of acid chlorides from the reaction mixture before (c) a hydrodehalogenation stage characterized by the fact that the chlorination process (a) is conducted at the boiling temperature of the mixture under a pressure of 0-1.

Abstract: A method has been disclosed of obtaining high purity, colourless monochloroacetic acid encompassing the chlorination of acetic acid with chlorine in the presence of a catalyst, followed by the recovery of the catalyst through vacuum distillation and purification of the obtained liquid raw product by its hydrodehalogenation by hydrogen in the presence of a palladium catalyst and then vacuum distillation.

Abstract: A method of producing monochloroacetic acid (MCAA) has been disclosed encompassing (a) a stage of the direct chlorination of acetic acid with chlorine and (b) a stage of recovery of the catalyst in the form of acid chlorides from the reaction mixture before (c) a hydrodehalogenation stage characterized by the fact that the chlorination process (a) is conducted at the boiling temperature of the mixture under a pressure of 0-1.