Abstract: A method of generating a desired gas is provided. The method includes introducing a matrix comprising media containing a parent compound and an inert media into an effusion tube comprising a first zone and a second zone. The first zone includes a micro-porous metal tube, and a closed end. The second zone includes a non-porous metal tube, and an open end. Heating the effusion tube, produces a desired gas.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention is to a process for producing an acrylate product. The process comprises the step of dehydrating a crude alkylenating agent stream to form a dehydrated alkylenating agent stream and a water stream. The process further comprises reacting acetic acid with at least a portion of the dehydrated alkylenating agent stream to form a crude acrylate product stream comprising acrylate product and alkylenating agent stream. The dehydrating of the crude alkylenating stream is accomplished using at least one evaporator or at least one distillation column.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing optically active carbonyl compounds by asymmetrically hydrogenating ?,?-unsaturated carbonyl compounds in the presence of optically active transition metal catalysts which are soluble in the reaction mixture and have at least one carbon monoxide ligand. The present invention especially relates to a process for preparing optically active aldehydes or ketones, in particular citronellal, by asymmetrically hydrogenating the corresponding optically active ?,?-unsaturated aldehydes or ketones.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the catalytic hydrogenation of methylol alkanals of general formula (I), where R1 and R2 independently represent an additional methylol group or an alkyl group having with 1 to 22 carbon atoms, or an alkyl group with 1 to 22 C atoms, or an aryl group or aralkyl group with 6 to 33 carbon atoms, in the liquid phase on a hydrogenation catalyst. The inventive method is characterized in that a pH value ranging between 6.3 and 7.

Abstract: In a process for the hydroformylation of ethylenically unsaturated compounds, at least one ethylenically unsaturated compound is reacted with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a ligand-metal complex of ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, iridium and/or platinum, where the ligand-metal complex comprises a monophosphine, monophosphinite or monophosphinamidite ligand of the formula I where A together with the phosphorus atom to which it is bound forms a 2-phosphatricyclo[3.3.1.1{3,7}]decyl radical in which one or more nonadjacent carbon atoms may be replaced by heteroatoms and which may be substituted, and R′ is hydrogen or an organic radical having a molecular weight of up to 20 000 bound via a carbon atom or oxygen atom or nitrogen atom. The process is particularly useful for the hydroformylation of internal branched olefins and lower pressures and/or temperatures are required in the hydroformylation than when using other phosphorus ligands.

Abstract: A method of reacting a solution comprising a mixture of chemical compounds which are in chemical equilibrium with one another with at least one further chemical compound (9) is provided. The method comprises the following steps: fractionation of the solution by means of a separation method to give at least two fractions (5, 6) which are enriched in different chemical compounds of the mixture; and reaction of a fraction (5) with the further chemical compound or compounds (9). The fractionation is advantageously carried out using a film evaporator (1). Unreacted fractions (6) can be recirculated via a residence time vessel (3) back to the fractionation step. The method is particularly suitable for reactions of an aqueous formaldehyde solution in which various components of the solution (formaldehyde, methylene glycol, polyoxymethylene glycols) react in different ways.

Abstract: A carbonylation process, wherein formaldehyde or a derivative thereof is reacted with carbon monoxide in the presence of a catalyst composition including:

Abstract: Abstract A process for purifying formaldehyde in which the formaldehyde is scrubbed with alcohol in an absorption unit and in the course of this reacted virtually completely to form the hemiformal and is simultaneously separated off from gaseous impurities in a first purification step. In a desorption unit, the residual impurities are then converted into a gaseous state and separated off from the liquid hemiformal, whereupon the purified hemiformal is thermally cleaved into alcohol and formaldehyde in a pyrolysis unit. The formaldehyde thus prepared is suitable, for example, for preparing oligomers, polymers, dyestuffs and fertilizers, as well as for the treatment of seeds.

Abstract: Methylolalkanal of the formula II (R=CH2OH, C1-C22-alkyl, aryl or C6-C22-aralkyl) is prepared spe-wise by a) reacting a C2-C24-aldehyde with formaldehyde in the presence of a tertiary amine, b) separating the reaction mixture i) into a bottom fraction comprising the compound of formula II and an incompletely methylolated compound of the formula III and a distillate stream comprising unconverted or partially converted starting materials, or ii) into an aqueous phase and an organic phase, and recycling the distillate stream or the organic phase to a), and c) subjecting the bottom fraction or the aqueous phase i) to a catalytic or thermal reaction to convert the compound of formula III to the compound of formula II and to a corresponding methylene compound of formula IV (R′=H or R) and ii) separating the reaction product into an overhead stream comprising the compound of formula IV and unconverted formaldehyde which is recycled to a

Abstract: The process comprises providing a formaldehyde solution at a concentration of 80-89%; heating the solution to a temperature of 80.degree.-100.degree. C.; pouring the heated solution over heated zones on a metal belt conveyor travelling from the heated zones to other, chilled zones. The formaldehyde solution is preferably previously mixed with a catalyst.

Abstract: A process for the catalytical preparation of condensation products of formaldehyde, in which formaldehyde or a formaldehyde-forming compound is caused to undergo reaction using a catalyst which has been produced, in the presence of an auxiliary base, from a triazolium salt of formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.3 are the same or different and stand for aliphatic groups having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms, optionally substituted aryl groups, optionally substituted aralkyl groups, and/or optionally substituted heteroaryl groups,R.sup.2 represents hydrogen, the hydroxymethylene group --CH.sub.2 OH or the hydroxy-hydroxymethylene-methylidyne group --CH(OH)(CH.sub.2 OH), andR.sup.4 denotes hydrogen, a halogen atom, a nitro or cyano group, an aliphatic group having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms, an optionally substituted aryl group, an optionally substituted aralkyl group, an optionally substituted heteroaryl group, an alkoxy group --OR.sup.5, a thioether group --SR.sup.6, an amino group --NR.sup.7R R.sup.

Abstract: Neopentyl glycol is made from isobutyraldehyde and paraformaldehyde; the aldol reaction product is directly mixed with a lower alcohol for hydrogenolysis.

Abstract: Neopentyl glycol is made by reacting isobutyraldehyde with paraformaldehyde in the presence of a tertiary amine and one or more oxides of elements of Groups IB, IVA, IVB, VA, VB, VIB and VIII of the periodic table; then hydrogenating the resulting hydroxypivaldehyde-containing product.

Abstract: An improvement for manufacturing paraformaldehyde prills from an aqueous solution of formaldehyde which comprises polymerizing the formaldehyde in the presence of a catalyst of sodium hydroxide in a concentration of from about 0.5 to about 5 ppm, aging the resulting mixture at about 100.degree. to about 130.degree. C. for about 10 to about 60 minutes, spraying the aged mixture into a prilling tower at from about 100.degree. to about 130.degree. C., collecting the prills in a fluidized bed at the base of the tower at from about 45.degree. to about 60.degree. C., removing the prills to a separate vessel where the prills further polymerize and dry at from about 15.degree. to about 30.degree. C. for about 3 to about 5 hours while operating the vessel in a plugged flow manner, and collecting the resulting prills.

Abstract: In a process for preparing methyl-nonyl-acetaldehyde from undecanal and formaldehyde or a source of formaldehyde, e.g., a substance which forms formaldehyde, in the presence of catalytic amounts of a secondary amine, the improvement whereinA. the undecanal is used in the form of the reaction mixture obtained by hydroformylation of 1-decene, andB. di-n-butylamine is used as the catalyst,C. the molar ratio of catalyst to undecanal is 0.025 to 0.050 to 1,D. the reaction is carried out at 90.degree. to 100.degree. C., andE. the 2-methylene-undecanal formed is then converted by partial hydrogenation into methyl-nonyl-acetaldehyde.