4- cyclohexanone oxime

Cyclohexanone reacts with hydroxylamine sulfate in the presence of ammonia, to produce the oxime with an equivalent of by-product ammonium sulfate. The number of steps required to form hydroxylamine sulfate complicates the procedure, and also gave rise to some further by-product ammonium sulphate. 

In the DSM HPO process, nitrate ions are reduced to hydroxylamine using a palladium/carbon catalyst in an aqueous phosphate buffer solution. It was possible to prepare cyclohexanone oxime by a process involving the extraction of cyclohexanone from solution in toluene, into an immiscible aqueous solution of hydroxylamine in a two phase liquid reactor. The spent solution was then recycled with added nitric acid to the reduction step and sulfate production was eliminated  

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Beckmann rearrangement of cvc7ohexanone oxime. M.p. 68-70 C, b.p. I39 C/12 mm. On healing it gives polyamides. Used in the manufacture of Nylon[6]. Cyclohexanone oxime is formed from cyclohexane and niirosyl chloride. U.S. production 1978 410 000 tonnes, capryl alcohol See 2-octanol. caiH Uc acid See oclanoic acid. 

Cyclohexanone oxime. Add 20 g. (21 ml.) of cyclohexanone to a solution of 17 g. of hydroxylamine hydrochloride in 40 ml. of water, and cool the mixture in ice-water. Add a solution of 13 g. of anhydrous sodium carbonate in 40 ml. of water slowly to the mixture, stirring the latter with a 100° thermometer, and maintaining the temperature of the mixture at 20-25° meanwhile. The oxime rapidly separates. Stir the complete mixture at intervals, and after 10 minutes filter the oxime at the pump, drain thoroughly and dry it in a (vacuum) desiccator. Yield of crude oxime, 20 g. Recrystallise from petroleum (b.p. 100-120 ) and dry over paraffin wax (p. 19). Yield of pure oxime, 16 g., m.p. 88°. 

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 This process has been superseded by other, more efficient processes (see Caprolactam).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. 

Ingredients. Nylon-6 is produced commercially from caprolactam [105-60-2] which is the most important lactam industrially. AH industrial production processes for caprolactam are multistep and produce ammonium sulfate [7783-20-2] or other by-products. Approximately 95% of the world s caprolactam is produced from cyclohexanone oxime [100-64-1] via the Beckmann rearrangement (144). The starting material for cyclohexanone can be... 

Caprolactam [105-60-2] (2-oxohexamethyleiiiiriiQe, liexaliydro-2J -a2epin-2-one) is one of the most widely used chemical intermediates. However, almost all of the aimual production of 3.0 x 10 t is consumed as the monomer for nylon-6 fibers and plastics (see Fibers survey Polyamides, plastics). Cyclohexanone, which is the most common organic precursor of caprolactam, is made from benzene by either phenol hydrogenation or cyclohexane oxidation (see Cyclohexanoland cyclohexanone). Reaction with ammonia-derived hydroxjlamine forms cyclohexanone oxime, which undergoes molecular rearrangement to the seven-membered ring S-caprolactam. 

Simultaneous neutralization and reaction produce cyclohexanone oxime [100-64-1] (eq. 4). 

Cyclohexanone oxime is converted quantitatively to caprolactam by Beckmann rearrangement in the presence of oleum, which is of sufficient strength to consume the several percent water in the molten oxime. The reaction mass is neutralized with aqueous ammonia to a cmde caprolactam layer and a saturated solution of ammonium sulfate. Approximately 1.5 kg of the total 4.4 kg ammonium sulfate per kilogram of caprolactam is produced in this step. Purification is by multistage vacuum crystallization from aqueous solution in neatly quantitative yield. 

Dutch State Mines (Stamicarbon). Vapor-phase, catalytic hydrogenation of phenol to cyclohexanone over palladium on alumina, Hcensed by Stamicarbon, the engineering subsidiary of DSM, gives a 95% yield at high conversion plus an additional 3% by dehydrogenation of coproduct cyclohexanol over a copper catalyst. Cyclohexane oxidation, an alternative route to cyclohexanone, is used in the United States and in Asia by DSM. A cyclohexane vapor-cloud explosion occurred in 1975 at a co-owned DSM plant in Flixborough, UK (12) the plant was rebuilt but later closed. In addition to the conventional Raschig process for hydroxylamine, DSM has developed a hydroxylamine phosphate—oxime (HPO) process for cyclohexanone oxime no by-product ammonium sulfate is produced. Catalytic ammonia oxidation is followed by absorption of NO in a buffered aqueous phosphoric acid... 

Toray. The photonitrosation of cyclohexane or PNC process results in the direct conversion of cyclohexane to cyclohexanone oxime hydrochloride by reaction with nitrosyl chloride in the presence of uv light (15) (see Photochemical technology). Beckmann rearrangement of the cyclohexanone oxime hydrochloride in oleum results in the evolution of HCl, which is recycled to form NOCl by reaction with nitrosylsulfuric acid. The latter is produced by conventional absorption of NO from ammonia oxidation in oleum. Neutralization of the rearrangement mass with ammonia yields 1.7 kg ammonium sulfate per kilogram of caprolactam. Purification is by vacuum distillation. The novel chemistry is as follows ... 

The most important use of cyclohexanone is as a chemical intermediate in nylon manufacture 97% of all cyclohexanone output is used either to make caprolactam for nylon-6, or adipic acid for nylon-6,6. In the caprolactam process cyclohexanone is converted to cyclohexanone oxime (mp,... 

SEMMLER WOLFF SCHROETER OximeAromatizatlon Aramatization of cyclohexanone oximes to anilines... 

Caprolactam is preferred to w-aminocaproic acid for the manufacture of nylon 6 because it is easier to make and to purify. Over the years many routes for the manufacture of caprolactam itself have been developed and major commercial routes are summarised in Figure 18.6. Of these routes the bulk of manufacture is via cyclohexanone and cyclohexanone oxime. 

The conversion of cyclohexanone to cyclohexanone oxime is brought about by the use of hydroxylamine sulphate. The sulphuric acid is neutralised with ammonia to ammonium sulphate and this is separated from the oxime. In the presence of oleum the oxime undergoes the process known as the Beckmann rearrangement to yield the crude caprolactam. After further neutralisation with ammonia the caprolactam and further ammonium sulphate are separated by solvent extraction (Figure 18.7). 

Reaction of hydroxylamine-0-sulfonic acid with cyclohexanone in alkaline solution can be shown to give pentamethyleneoxazirane (16). Compound 16 is an isomer of cyclohexanone oxime. It decomposes even at room temperature and thus cannot be prepared in a pure state. 

Therefore, CL and die depolymerized product from which CL is regenerated contain various impurities which are present in widely fluctuating amounts depending on the reclamation processes involved. In particular, the presence of cyclohexanone, cyclohexanone oxime, octahydrophenazine, aniline, and other easily oxidized compounds affects die permanganate number. Also volatile substances such as aniline, cyclohexylamine, cyclohexanol, cyclohexanone, nitrocy-clohexanone, and aliphatic amines may also be present in the CL.22... 

Cyclohexanon-oxim+ Propansaure —> N-Propyl-N-cyclohexyl-hydroxylamin 87% d.Th. 

Geminale Chlor-nitroso-Verbindungen werden durch Lithiumalanat in Diathylather (40-70% d.Th.) oder besser mit Natriumboranat in waBrigem Athanol (50-80% d.Th.) zu Oximen reduziert. Als Nebenprodukte konnen gelegentlich Hydroxylamine isoliert werden. So erhalt man z.B. aus 1-Chlor-l-nitroso-cyclohexan mit Natriumboranat neben 61 % d.Th. Cyclohexanon-oxim 11 % d.Th.V-Cyclohexyl-hydroxylamin5. Dagegen werden bei der Reduktion von 1-Nitroso-l-acetoxy-cyclohexan Cydohexanol (8% d.Th.) und N-Cyclohexyl-acetamid (34% d.Th.) erhalten6. 

Primary aliphatic nitro compounds can be reduced to nitriles with sodium dihydro(trithio)borate " or with f-BuN=C/BuN=C=0. Secondary compounds give mostly ketones (e.g., nitrocyclohexane gave 45% cyclohexanone, 30% cyclohexanone oxime, and 19% A-cyclohexylhydroxylamine). Tertiary aliphatic nitro compounds do not react with this reagent. See also 19-41. 

Another valuable rearrangement reaetion that is usually catalysed by stoichiometric amounts of catalyst is the Beekmann rearrangement (Seheme 1.4). This reaetion is used commercially for converting cyclohexanone oxime into caprolactam, a key intermediate for nylon 6 20% oleum is the usual catalyst. A wide range of heterogeneous catalysts have been explored, which avoid the need for using oleum. In particular, certain... 

Sticking with nylon production, high-silica pentasil zeolites are used by Sumitomo to overcome environmental issues associated with the conversion of cyclohexanone oxime to caprolactam (Chapter 1, Scheme 1.4). 

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