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GB573456A - Production of vinyl cyanide - Google Patents

Production of vinyl cyanide

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GB573456A
GB573456A GB9066/44A GB906644A GB573456A GB 573456 A GB573456 A GB 573456A GB 9066/44 A GB9066/44 A GB 9066/44A GB 906644 A GB906644 A GB 906644A GB 573456 A GB573456 A GB 573456A
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vinyl cyanide
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EIDP Inc
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EI Du Pont de Nemours and Co
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C07ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    • C07CACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
    • C07C253/00Preparation of carboxylic acid nitriles
    • C07C253/08Preparation of carboxylic acid nitriles by addition of hydrogen cyanide or salts thereof to unsaturated compounds
    • C07C253/12Preparation of carboxylic acid nitriles by addition of hydrogen cyanide or salts thereof to unsaturated compounds to compounds containing carbon-to-carbon triple bonds

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Abstract

A process for the production of vinyl cyanide, which comprises reacting acetylene with hydrogen cyanide at a temperature above the boiling point of vinyl cyanide and in the presence of a catalyst for the reaction, includes the step of condensing the vapours of vinyl cyanide resulting from the reaction and acidifying the condensate. The crude product may then be stored for a considerable time without decomposition occurring and better yields of the pure vinyl cyanide are obtained on distillation. To render the crude product acid, any of the common inorganic or organic acids such as sulphur dioxide or sulphurous acid, sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, chloric acid, phosphoric acid, acetic acid, oxalic acid, propionic acid, lactic acid, tartaric acid or glycollic acid may be used, as well as salts whose aqueous solutions have an acid reaction, for example sodium dihydrogen phosphate, zinc sulphate and aluminium chloride. Preferably, non-corrosive acidic materials are employed. Water may be added to the acidic material but preferably in amounts not more than 10 per cent to 15 per cent of the acidic material utilised. Acids such as sulphuric or nitric acids should be added as dilute solutions. The preferred amount of acid used should be such that a water extract obtained by shaking 10 volumes of the acidified condensate with 25 volumes of water at room temperature will have a pH below 4.6. The acidic material should preferably be introduced intermittently or continuously into the condensing apparatus though it is effective when added to the condensate receiver. If a gaseous acidic material is employed, it may be added to the gaseous reaction products at some point in the system before condensation has taken place. In an example, acetylene and hydrogen cyanide are reacted over a catalys consisting of sodium cyanide supported on activated carbon and the condensed reaction products collected in receivers containing glacial acetic acid. On subsequent distillation the recovered vinyl cyanide amounted to 66 per cent by weight of the condensate. A similar experiment in which the acid was omitted gave a recovery of only 10 per cent. German Specification 559,734 is referred to.
GB9066/44A 1943-05-20 1944-05-12 Production of vinyl cyanide Expired GB573456A (en)

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