Adipic acid, formation

Direct conversion of cyclohexane into adipic acid has been achieved under the Ishii oxidation reaction conditions [34e], The selectivity of adipic acid formation was 73% at 73% conversion in the presence of NHPI and Mn(acac)i at 100 °C for 20 h. The oxidation of other cycloalkanes is presented in Table IX.3 [34e],... 

Van Asselt, W. and van Krevelen, D. (1963). Preparation of Adipic Acid by Oxidation of Cyclohexanol and Cyclohexanone with Nitric Acid, Rec. Trav. Chim. Pays Bos., 82, pp. 51-67, 429-449 Van Asselt, W. and van Krevelen, D. (1963). Adipic Acid Formation by Oxidation of Cyclohexanol and Cyclohexanone with Nitric Acid, Chemical Engineering Science, 18, pp. 471 83. 

Adipic acid undergoes the usual reactions of carboxyflc acids, including esterification, amidation, reduction, halogenation, salt formation, and dehydration. Because of its biflmctional nature, it also undergoes several industrially significant polymerization reactions. 

Salt Formation. Salt-forming reactions of adipic acid are those typical of carboxylic acids. Alkali metal salts and ammonium salts are water soluble alkaline earth metal salts have limited solubiUty (see Table 5). Salt formation with amines and diamines is discussed in the next section. 

Formation of cyclopentanones by cyclization-decarboxylation of adipic acids r COjH... 

In the first case a dibasic acid is reacted with diamine to give a polyamide. A specific example is the formation of nylon 66 by the reaction of adipic acid and hexamethy lenediamine. 

Ketals bearing the double bond at the 4,5-position are prepared by reaction with glycol in the presence of weak acids such as adipic acid. In this case ketal formation proceeds via the intermediate 2,4-dien-3-ol ether. Hemithioketals (71) of A -3-ketones are prepared by reaction with mer-... 

The epoxidation method developed by Noyori was subsequently applied to the direct formation of dicarboxylic acids from olefins [55], Cyclohexene was oxidized to adipic acid in 93% yield with the tungstate/ammonium bisulfate system and 4 equivalents of hydrogen peroxide. The selectivity problem associated with the Noyori method was circumvented to a certain degree by the improvements introduced by Jacobs and coworkers [56]. Additional amounts of (aminomethyl)phos-phonic acid and Na2W04 were introduced into the standard catalytic mixture, and the pH of the reaction media was adjusted to 4.2-5 with aqueous NaOH. These changes allowed for the formation of epoxides from ot-pinene, 1 -phenyl- 1-cyclohex-ene, and indene, with high levels of conversion and good selectivity (Scheme 6.3). 

Heterocyclic block copolymers, 282-284 Heterocyclic diamines, rigid, 281 Heterocyclic polymers, structure-property relationships in, 273-274 Heterocyclic ring formation, PQ and PPQ synthesis by, 309-310 Hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (HTMAB), 549-550 Hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI), 199, 210. See also HDI trimer Hexamethylenediamine-adipic acid salt, 169, 170... 

The photo-Kolbe reaction is the decarboxylation of carboxylic acids at tow voltage under irradiation at semiconductor anodes (TiO ), that are partially doped with metals, e.g. platinum [343, 344]. On semiconductor powders the dominant product is a hydrocarbon by substitution of the carboxylate group for hydrogen (Eq. 41), whereas on an n-TiOj single crystal in the oxidation of acetic acid the formation of ethane besides methane could be observed [345, 346]. Dependent on the kind of semiconductor, the adsorbed metal, and the pH of the solution the extent of alkyl coupling versus reduction to the hydrocarbon can be controlled to some extent [346]. The intermediacy of alkyl radicals has been demonstrated by ESR-spectroscopy [347], that of the alkyl anion by deuterium incorporation [344]. With vicinal diacids the mono- or bisdecarboxylation can be controlled by the light flux [348]. Adipic acid yielded butane [349] with levulinic acid the products of decarboxylation, methyl ethyl-... 

The ATO Chemie process involves the formation of an adipic acid-capped hard segment block of poly(ll-aminoundecanoic) of molecular weight 800-1500, joined with a soft segment of polyol in a polyesterification process. 

The subsequent reaction of cyclohexane with air in the first step to adipic acid is not simple and, actually, is not well understood chemically. Only a small amount of cyclohexane present in the operation is allowed to react before the unreacted cyclohexane is recovered for recycle and the oxygen-containing products isolated for further reaction with nitric acid. Despite decades of research on this chemistry in efforts to increase yields and decrease by-product formation, substantial amounts of the starting cyclohex-... 

Aldehyde-containing macromolecules will react spontaneously with hydrazide compounds to form hydrazone linkages. The hydrazone bond is a form of Schiff base that is more stable than the Schiff base formed from the interaction of an aldehyde and an amine. The hydrazone, however, may be reduced and further stabilized by the same reductants utilized for reductive amination purposes (Chapter 3, Section 4.8). The addition of sodium cyanoborohydride to a hydrazide-aldehyde reaction drives the equilibrium toward formation of a stable covalent complex. Mallia (1992) found that adipic acid dihydrazide derivatization of periodate-oxidized dextran (containing multiple formyl functionalities) proceeds with much greater yield when sodium cyanoborohydride is present. 

On the other hand, the methoxyester results from MeOH attack on coordinated double bond, followed by methoxycarbonylation (Scheme 11). In both cases, the formation of 7r-allylpalladium complexes directs the regio-chemistry of the process. By optimizing the reaction conditions, it has been possible to obtain the unsaturated diester selectively. The latter compound is particularly important, since it can be easily transformed after hydrolysis and hydrogenation into adipic acid [52-54], Selective alkoxy-alkoxycarbonylation of 1,3-dienes has also been achieved [55]. 

Nylon-66 is made by the condensation polymerization of the dicarboxylic acid adipic acid, and 1,6-diaminohexane, an amine. (The number 66 comes from the fact that each of the two reactants contains six carbon atoms.) This reaction results in the formation of amide bonds between monomers, as shown in Figure 2.13. Condensation polymers that contain amide bonds are called nylons or polyamides. Condensation polymers that contain ester bonds are called polyesters. Polyesters result from the esterification of diacids and dialcohols. 

Oxidation of -hexane with Co AlPO-18 with 10% rather than 4% of the framework AP ions replaced with Co resulted in a dramatic enhancement in the formation of adipic acid [65]. It was argued that in these catalysts two Co ions are ideally separated by 7-8 A on the inner wall of the zeolite, allowing both methyl groups unfettered access to catalytically active sites. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that 1,6-hexanediol and 1,6-hexanedial served as precursors to the adipic acid. On the other hand, 1-hexanol, hexanoic acid, and hexanal, which were also formed in the reaction, did not serve as precursors for the adipic acid. It is tempting to suggest that the mono-oxidized hexane products were produced in regions of the zeolite where simultaneous access to two catalytically active sites was not possible. 

The synthesis of polyamides follows a different route from that of polyesters. Although several different polymerization reactions are possible, polyamides are usually produced either by direct amidation of a diacid with a diamine or the self-amidation of an amino acid. The polymerization of amino acids is not as useful because of a greater tendency toward cycliza-tion (Sec. 2-5b). Ring-opening polymerization of lactams is also employed to synthesize polyamides (Chap. 7). Poly(hexamethylene adipamde) [IUPAC poly(iminohexanedioylimi-nohexane-l,6-diyl) or poly(iminoadipoyliminohexane-l,6-diyl)], also referred to as nylon 6/6, is synthesized from hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid [Zimmerman, 1988 Zimmerman and Kohan, 2001]. A stoichiometric balance of amine and carboxyl groups is readily obtained by the preliminary formation of a 1 1 ammonium salt (XU ) in aqueous solution at a concentration of 50%. The salt is often referred to as a nylon salt. Stoichiometric... 

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