Nitration cyclohexane

Quantitative estimation of cyclohexane in the presence of benzene and aUphatic hydrocarbons may be accompHshed by a nitration-dehydrogenation method described in Reference 61. The mixture is nitrated with mixed acid and under conditions that induce formation of the soluble mononitroaromatic derivative. The original mixture of hydrocarbons then is dehydrogenated over a platinum catalyst and is nitrated again. The mononitro compounds of the original benzene and the benzene formed by dehydrogenation of the cyclohexane dissolve in the mixed acid. The aUphatic compound remains unattacked and undissolved. This reaction may be carried out on a micro scale. 

When cyclohexane is nitrated to produce nitrocyclohexane [1122-60-7] the foUowiag techniques minimise undesired C—C breakage ia the ring low temperature nitrations with NO2 (31), carefiil control of the reactor temperatures, and use of halogen additives. Oxygen iacreases the level of C—C bond breakage. 

The only other nitroparaffin manufactured on a large scale was nitrocyclohexane [1122-60-7] made by Hquid-phase nitration of cyclohexane. Nitrocyclohexane was the starting material for S-caprolactam via reduction to cyclohexanone oxime. This process has been superseded by other, more efficient processes (see Caprolactam). Nitrocyclohexane is not being produced ia large quantities for either captive use or sale. 

Petrochemicals are those chemicals produced from petroleum or natural gas and can be generally divided into three groups (/) aliphatics, such as butane and butene (2) cycloaliphatics, such as cyclohexane, cyclohexane derivatives, and aromatics (eg, ben2ene, toluene, xylene, and naphthalene) and (J) inorganics, such as sulfur, ammonia, ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate, and nitric acid. 

Impurities can sometimes be removed by conversion to derivatives under conditions where the major component does not react or reacts much more slowly. For example, normal (straight-chain) paraffins can be freed from unsaturated and branched-chain components by taking advantage of the greater reactivity of the latter with chlorosulfonic acid or bromine. Similarly, the preferential nitration of aromatic hydrocarbons can be used to remove e.g. benzene or toluene from cyclohexane by shaking for several hours with a mixture of concentrated nitric acid (25%), sulfuric acid (58%), and water (17%). 

Current-voltage curve 594 Cyanide, D. of as silver cyanide, (g) 48l with silver nitrate, (ti) 358 titration with silver nitrate, 309, 358 Cyclohexane, D. of (ir) 756 Cyclohexane-1,2-dione dioxime see Nioxime... 

The cyanobacteria Anflfcflenfl sp. strain PCC 7120 andNostoc ellipsosporum dechlorinated y-hexachloro[flflfleee]cyclohexane in the light in presence of nitrate to y-pentachlorocyclo-hexene (Figure 2.5), and to a mixture of chlorobenzenes (Kuritz and Wolk 1995). The reaction is dependent on the functioning of the nir operon involved in nitrite reduction (Kuritz et al. 1997). 

Catalysts - A commercial Raney nickel (RNi-C) and a laboratory Raney nickel (RNi-L) were used in this study. RNi-C was supplied in an aqueous suspension (pH < 10.5, A1 < 7 wt %, particle size 0.012-0.128 mm). Prior to the activity test, RNi-C catalyst (2 g wet, 1.4 g dry, aqueous suspension) was washed three times with ethanol (20 ml) and twice with cyclohexane (CH) (20 mL) in order to remove water from the catalyst. RCN was then exchanged for the cyclohexane and the catalyst sample was introduced into the reactor as a suspension in the substrate. RNi-L catalyst was prepared from a 50 % Ni-50 % A1 alloy (0.045-0.1 mm in size) by treatment with NaOH which dissolved most of the Al. This catalyst was stored in passivated and dried form. Prior to the activity test, the catalyst (0.3 g) was treated in H2 at 250 °C for 2 h and then introduced to the reactor under CH. Raney cobalt (RCo), a commercial product, was treated likewise. Alumina supported Ru, Rh, Pd and Pt catalysts (powder) containing 5 wt. % of metal were purchased from Engelhard in reduced form. Prior to the activity test, catalyst (1.5 g) was treated in H2 at 250 °C for 2 h and then introduced to the reactor under solvent. 10 % Ni and 10 % Co/y-Al203 (200 m2/g) catalysts were prepared by incipient wetness impregnation using nitrate precursors. After drying the samples were calcined and reduced at 500 °C for 2 h and were then introduced to the reactor under CH. 

Nitration of ketones or enol ethers provides a useful method for the preparation of a-nitro ketones. Direct nitration of ketones with HN03 suffers from the formation of a variety of oxidative by-products. Alternatively, the conversion of ketones into their enolates, enol acetates, or enol ethers, followed by nitration with conventional nitrating agents such as acyl nitrates, gives a-nitro ketones (see Ref. 79, a 1980 review). The nitration of enol acetates of alkylated cyclohexanones with concentrated nitric acid in acetic anhydride at 15-22 °C leads to mixtures of cis- and rrans-substituted 2-nitrocyclohexanones in 75-92% yield. 4-Monoalkylated acetoxy-cyclohexanes give mainly m-compounds, and 3-monoalkylated ones yield fra/w-compounds (Eq. 2.40).80... 

Ke and Regier [71] have described a direct potentiometric determination of fluoride in seawater after extraction with 8-hydroxyquinoline. This procedure was applied to samples of seawater, fluoridated tap-water, well-water, and effluent from a phosphate reduction plant. Interfering metals, e.g., calcium, magnesium, iron, and aluminium were removed by extraction into a solution of 8-hydroxyquinoline in 2-butoxyethanol-chloroform after addition of glycine-sodium hydroxide buffer solution (pH 10.5 to 10.8). A buffer solution (sodium nitrate-l,2-diamino-cyclohexane-N,N,N. AT-tetra-acetic acid-acetic acid pH 5.5) was then added to adjust the total ionic strength and the fluoride ions were determined by means of a solid membrane fluoride-selective electrode (Orion, model 94-09). Results were in close agreement with and more reproducible than those obtained after distillation [72]. Omission of the extraction led to lower results. Four determinations can be made in one hour. 

The diester 110 (E = CC Et) reacts with a mixture of trimethyltin chloride and sodium cyanoborohydride under AIBN catalysis to give the cyclopentane 111 as a 4 1 mixture of cis- and fraws-isomers. The products are destannylated to the acetals 112 by treatment with methanolic ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN). The 1,7-octadienyl derivative 113 was similarly converted into the cyclohexanes 114 (cis/trans = 1 1) (equation 60)67. 

Nixan [Nitrocyclohexane] A process for making cyclohexane oxime (an intermediate in the manufacture of nylon) from benzene by liquid phase nitration, followed by hydrogenation of the nitrobenzene. Invented by Du Pont and operated from 1963 to 1967. 

Chemical/Physical. The gas-phase reaction of cyclohexane with OH radicals in the presence of nitric oxide yielded cyclohexanone and cyclohexyl nitrate as the major products (Aschmann et al., 1997). 

Grosjean, E., Grosjean, D., and Seinfeld, J.H. Atmospheric chemistry of 1-octene, 1-decene, and cyclohexane gas-phase carbonyl and peroxyacyl nitrate products. Environ. ScL Technol, 30(3) 1038-1047, 1996. 

The tertiary and quaternary amine bases are viscous liquids at room temperature and infinitely soluble in nonpolar solvents, but only slightly soluble in water. The solubility of the ion-pair RNH L in organic solvents depends on the chain length and on the counterion, LT the solubility of TLA HCl in wet benzene is 0.7 M, in cyclohexane 0.08 M, in CHCI3 1.2 M, and in CCI4 0.7 M. Nitrate and perchlorate salts are less soluble, as are lower molecular weight amines. 

The important derivatives of benzene are shown in Table 8.8. Ethylbenzene is made from ethylene and benzene and then dehydrogenated to styrene, which is polymerized for various plastics applications. Cumene is manufactured from propylene and benzene and then made into phenol and acetone. Cyclohexane, a starting material for some nylon, is made by hydrogenation of benzene. Nitration of benzene followed by reduction gives... 

Die Uberfuhrung von 1-Acetoxy-cyclohexen zu 2-Nitro-l-oxo-cyclohexan gelingt am be-sten, wenn man geringe Mengen Schwefelsaure zu einem Salpetersaure/Acetanhydrid-Gemisch (Acetyl-nitrat) gibt (86% )2 ... 

Aluminum foil, Iodine powder. Carbon disulfide, 1,4,6,9-Tetrabromodiamantane, Sodium bisulfite. Hydrochloric acid. Methanol, Acetonitrile, Acetone, Sodium hydroxide. Magnesium sulfate. Potassium permanganate. Toluene Methylene chloride, 2-Bromomethanol, Trioxane, Aluminum chloride. Magnesium sulfate, Nitroform, Acetone, Sodium bicarbonate. Hexane, Silver nitrate. Acetonitrile 1,2-Dichloroethane, HexamethyldisUane, Iodine, Cyclohexane, 1,3-Dioxolane, Nitroform, Methylene chloride, Dimethylformamide, Sodium sulfate. Hydrochloric acid. Magnesium sulfate. Nitric acid. Sulfuric acid Sulfuryl chloride. Acetic anhydride. Nitric acid. Sodium bicarbonate. Sodium sulfate Nitric acid. Sulfuric acid, Malonamide Nitric acid. Sulfuric acid, Cyanoacetic acid Sulfuric acid, Acetasalicyclic acid. Potassium nitrate Nitroform, Diethyl ether, 1-Bromo-l-nitroethane, Sodium sulfuate... 

Nitric acid is used for nitrating numerous other compounds to produce nitrates. Nitric acid is used to produce adipic acid (C6H4O10), which is used in the production of nylon (see Nylon). In this process, cyclohexane is oxidized to a cyclohexanol-cyclohexanone mixture. Cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone are then oxidized with nitric acid to adipic acid. 

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