Farbenfabriken Bayer

A process to convert butenes to acetic acid has been developed by Farbenfabriken Bayer AG (137) and could be of particular interest to Europe and Japan where butylenes have only fuel value. In this process a butane—butylene stream from which butadiene and isobutylene have been removed reacts with acetic acid in the presence of acid ion-exchange resin at 100—120°C and 1500—2000 kPa (about 15—20 atm) (see Acetic acid and its derivatives, acetic acid). Both butenes react to yield j -butyl acetate which is then oxidized at about 200°C and 6 MPa (about 60 atm) without catalyst to yield acetic acid. 

From 1946 to mid-1987, Farbenfabriken Bayer AG in Germany was the European producer of cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB), and cellulose acetate propionate (CAP) before closing its faciUties. Bayer s exit from the cellulose acetate mixed esters business leaves Eastman Chemical Co. in the United States as the sole producer of CAB/CAP resins. 

Carothers also produced a number of aliphatic linear polyesters but these did not fulfil his requirements for a fibre-forming polymer which were eventually met by the polyamide, nylon 66. As a consequence the polyesters were discarded by Carothers. However, in 1941 Whinfield and Dickson working at the Calico Printers Association in England announced the discovery of a fibre from poly(ethylene terephthalate). Prompted by the success of such a polymer, Farbenfabriken Bayer initiated a programme in search of other useful polymers containing aromatic rings in the main chain. Carbonic acid derivatives were reacted with many dihydroxy compounds and one of these, bis-phenol A, produced a polymer of immediate promise. 

There is little call for these thermoplastics materials (marketed as Durethan U, Farbenfabriken Bayer) since they are about twice the price of nylons 66 and 6. Where a thermoplastic for light engineering purposes is required with a low water absorption, nylon 11, acetal resins and, in certain instances, polycarbonates are cheaper and, usually, at least as satisfactory. 

A general term applied to a variety of instruments for determining the curing characteristics of elastomers. The spelling Vulkameter refers to a particular instrument developed by Farbenfabriken Bayer and marketed by Agfa Ltd. Vulcanisate... 

Professor Heinrich Hoerlein is supervisory board member of Farbenfabriken Bayer A.G., at Leverkusen - one of the huge companies which together, on paper, are "successor companies of I.G. Farben."... 

Felix Hoffmann did not publish his version of the discovery, nor did he obtain a German patent, since the synthesis had been previously described. Farbenfabriken Bayer did obtain a U.S. Patent2 6 in 1900 which named him as the inventor. Chemical Abstracts reveal no subsequent publications by him, nor is there any record that he was publicly honored for his contribution. However, in 1899, he was appointed director of the pharmaceutical research and marketing division of Bayer. He retired in 19287. 

Simultaneously with Hansa Yellow G, compound 84 was first described as early as 1909 by Farbenfabriken Bayer. Its preparation starts from l-amino-4-bro-moanthraquinone-2-sulfonic acid (bromamine acid) 85. Dimerization is achieved through the Ullmann reaction, i.e., treatment with fine-grain copper powder in dilute sulfuric acid at 75°C. The separated intermediate, the disodium salt of 4,4 -diamino-l,l -dianthraquinonyl-3,3 -disulfonic acid 86, is heated to 135 to 140°C in the presence of 80% sulfuric acid in order to cleave the sulfonic acid groups [7] ... 

Much the most important polycarbonate in commercial terms is made from 2,2-di(4-hydroxyphenyl)propane, commonly known as bisphenol A. This polymer was discovered and developed by Farbenfabriken Bayer [92], The synthesis and properties of this and many other polycarbonates were described by Schnell in 1956 [93], The polymer became available in Germany in 1959, and was given the trade name Makrolon by Bayer (in the USA, Merlon from Mobay). General Electric (GE) independently developed a melt polymerisation route based on transesterification of a bisphenol with DPC [94], Their product, Lexan, entered the US market in 1960. The solution polymerisation route using phosgene has since been displaced by an interfacial polymerisation. 

Acralen Styrene-butadiene latex Farbenfabriken Bayer AG... 

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