Abstract: The present invention relates to the preparation of alicyclic polycarboxylic esters by ring-hydrogenation of the corresponding aromatic polycarboxylic esters on a catalyst which comprises at least one metal from the triad iron, cobalt, nickel, and at least one metal of the IInd, IIIrd, IVth, Vth, and/or VIth transition group of the Periodic Table. An alicyclic carboxylic ester mixture with a proportion above 10 mol % of the trans isomers. The use of the alicyclic polycarboxylic ester mixtures. Mixtures made from plastics and from alicyclic polycarboxylic ester mixtures.

Abstract: A process for the dissociation of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), which includes at least a) catalytic dissociation of MTBE which is present in two streams I and VII over a catalyst to give a dissociation product II, b) separation by distillation of the dissociation product II obtained in a) into an overhead stream III containing more than 90% by mass and a bottom stream IV containing diisobutene, MTBE and more than 80% of the methanol present in the dissociation product II, c) separation by distillation of the bottom stream IV obtained in b) into a methanol-containing bottom stream V, a side stream VI containing diisobutene, methanol and MTBE and an overhead stream VII containing MTBE and methanol and d) recirculation of the overhead stream VII to a).

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for the continuous reaction of a liquid and a second fluid, wherein the device comprises at least two jet loop reactors interconnected in parallel and common outer liquid recirculation.

Abstract: A process for preparing a C5 aldehyde mixture from a hydrocarbon mixture comprising at least one linear butene by terminal hydroformylation under isomerizing conditions, using a catalyst system comprising rhodium, a bisphosphite ligand, and an amine.

Abstract: Isobutene is prepared by dissociation of MTBE in the gas phase, by a) fractional distillation of an MTBE-containing stream comprising feed MTBE (I) and a recycle stream (VIII) to give an MTBE-containing overhead stream (II) and a bottom stream (III) having a boiling point higher than MTBE, b) catalytic dissociation of the overhead stream (II) obtained in step a) to give a dissociation product (IV), c) separation by distillation of the dissociation product (IV) obtained in step b) into an overhead stream (V) comprising more than 90% by mass of isobutene and a bottom stream (VI) comprising diisobutene, MTBE and more than 50% of the methanol present in the dissociation product (IV), d) fractional distillation of the bottom stream obtained in step c) under conditions under which the methanol is obtained as bottom product (VII) and more than 99% of the MTBE is obtained in the overhead product (VIII), and e) recirculation of the overhead product (VIII) to step a).

Abstract: Isobutene is prepared by a process in which a) an MTBE-containing stream I is separated by distillation into an MTBE-containing overhead stream II and a bottom stream III which comprises compounds having boiling points higher than that of MTBE; and b) the MTBE present in the overhead stream II is dissociated over a catalyst to give a dissociation product IV; wherein the stream I has a proportion of 2-methoxybutane (MSBE) of greater than 1000 ppm by mass, based on MTBE, and wherein the separation by distillation in step a) and/or the dissociation in step b) is carried out so that the dissociation product IV has a concentration of less than 1000 ppm by mass of linear butenes, based on a C4-olefin fraction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hydrogenation catalyst which comprises a support material and at least one hydrogenation-active metal and in which the support material is based on titanium dioxide, zirconium dioxide, aluminium oxide, silicon oxide or mixed oxides thereof and the hydrogenation-active metal is at least one element from the group consisting of copper, cobalt, nickel, chromium, wherein the support material contains the element barium. The invention further relates to a process for preparing alcohols by hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds, in which the hydrogenation is carried out in the presence of such a hydrogenation catalyst.

Abstract: The present invention relates to mixtures of citric esters of the formula I, in which each of R1, R2 and R3 is an aliphatic C5 or C9 moiety, characterized in that the average chain length of the aliphatic moieties in the mixture is in the range from greater than 5 to 7, and the average degree of branching of the aliphatic C9 moieties is in the range from 0.9 to 2.2. The present invention also relates to the use of the citric ester mixture according to the invention as plasticizer in plastics compositions. The present invention also relates to a composition comprising the citric ester mixture according to the invention in a mixture with further components, comprising plasticizers from the group of the alkyl esters of aromatic polycarboxylic acids, of the cyclohexanepolycarboxylic acids, of benzoic acid or of adipic acid, and also to the use of this type of plasticizer composition in plastics compositions, in adhesives, in sealing compounds, in coatings, in paints, in plastisols or in inks.

Abstract: The invention relates to a supported catalyst based on palladium-?-alumina, which is characterized in that the catalyst support material contains 1 to 1000 ppm by mass of sodium oxide and has a specific pore volume of 0.4 to 0.9 ml/g and a BET surface area of 150 to 350 m2/g. The invention further relates to a process for hydrogenating polyunsaturated ethers with hydrogen to the corresponding saturated ethers, in which the catalyst used is such a catalyst.

Abstract: The invention relates to a one-stage continuous process for hydroformylating olefins having at least 5 carbon atoms to the corresponding aldehydes and/or alcohols having at least 6 carbon atoms in the presence of unmodified cobalt catalysts in a process in which, in the presence of an aqueous phase and of an organic phase, catalyst formation, catalyst extraction and hydroformylation proceed in the same reactor, which is characterized in that more aqueous cobalt salt solution is fed into the reactor as an aqueous phase with the liquid reaction mixture and is discharged from the reactor with the gas phase, and in that the level of the aqueous bottom phase is kept constant by continuously conducting a portion of the aqueous bottom phase out of the reactor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the continuous preparation of aldehydes and/or alcohols having at least 6 carbon atoms by multistage hydroformylation of olefins or olefin mixtures having at least 5 carbon atoms in the presence of unmodified cobalt complexes, in which at least two reactors are operated at different temperatures in the temperature range from 100 to 220° C. and pressures of from 100 to 400 bar, which is characterized in that a) one reactor is operated at temperatures above 160° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing 1-butenic fractions having less than 2000 ppm of isobutene in relation to 1-butene from technical mixtures of C4 hydrocarbons I which contain at least 1-butene and 2000 ppmw to 8% by mass of isobutene based on the 1-butene, with or without n-butane, isobutane and/or 2-butenes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing 1-butenic fractions having less than 2000 ppm of isobutene in relation to 1-butene from technical mixtures of C4 hydrocarbons I which contain at least 1-butene and 2000 ppmw to 8% by mass of isobutene based on the 1-butene, with or without n-butane, isobutane and/or 2-butenes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to mixtures of alicyclic polycarboxylic esters with high cis content, to a process for their preparation by ring-hydrogenation of the corresponding aromatic polycarboxylic esters, and also to the use of the mixtures.

Abstract: The present invention relates to mixtures of alicyclic polycarboxylic esters with high cis content, to a process for their preparation by ring-hydrogenation of the corresponding aromatic polycarboxylic esters, and also to the use of the mixtures.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing full esters of alicyclic polycarboxylic acids from partial esters of aromatic polycarboxylic acids by hydrogenation of the partial ester followed by esterification of this compound.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mixture comprising diesters of the formula (I) where R1 to R8?H or alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, where the R1 to R8 radicals may be the same or different, which is characterized in that at least two different diesters I are present in the mixture, said diesters differing in the structure of at least one of the carboxylic acid radicals C8H17COO present, to a process for preparing diesters of an isosorbide derivative of the formula I, in which a hexahydric alcohol and/or a monoanhydro or dianhydro derivative of the alcohol is esterified with a mixture of at least two different carboxylic acids of the empirical formula C8H17COOH, and to the use of these mixtures in paints, inks or coatings, in plastisols, adhesives or adhesive components, in sealants, as plasticizers in polymers or polymer components, as solvents, as lubricant oil components and as assistants in metal processing, and also PVC compositions or plastisols comprising PVC and from 5 to 250 parts by ma

Abstract: A reactor, which is capable of accommodating a reaction in which at least three phases are present and at least one gaseous starting material and at least one liquid starting material are reacted in cocurrent over a fixed-bed catalyst to give one or more product(s), contains at least one first zone in which a catalyst is present as a fixed bed; and at least one second zone whose size corresponds to a reactor cross section and which is separated from the at least one first zone by a distributor plate provided with at least one hole and in which at least one liquid and at least one gaseous starting material enter the reactor. The distributor plate is provided with at least one static mixer which is located in the at least one hole on at least one side of the distributor plate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the preparation of 3-methylbut-1-ene from a hydrocarbon stream I comprising isobutene by feeding a hydrocarbon stream II which comprises at least 70% by mass of isobutene in relation to the olefins present in the hydrocarbon stream and which has been obtained from hydrocarbon stream I or is identical to it to a process step for hydroformylation in which isobutene is hydroformylated in the presence of a rhodium catalyst, hydrogenating the aldehyde obtained from the hydroformylation of isobutene to the corresponding alcohol and preparing 3-methylbut-1-ene by water elimination from the alcohol.

Abstract: A hydrogenation catalyst is used for the catalytic hydrogenation of an ester-containing aldehyde mixture and the catalyst contains a ?-alumina having a BET surface area of from 70 to 350 m2/g as support material, and at least one component having hydrogenation activity and being selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt and mixtures thereof.