From manganese acetate

Figure 19. Variation of amount of thermostable polymer from the complex of polyethylene terephthalate, ethylene-diamine, and Mn2+ (from manganese acetate) with milling...

The TPA process. The technology involves the oxidation of p-xylene, as shown already in Figure 18—2. The reaction takes place in the liquid phase in an acetic acid solvent at 400°F and 200 psi, with a cobalt acetate/ manganese acetate catalyst and sodium bromide promoter. Excess air is present to ensure the p-xylene is fully oxidized and to minimize by-products. The reaction time is about one hour. Yields are 90—95% based on the amount of p-xylene that ends up as TPA. Solid TPA has only limited solubility in acetic acid, so happily the TPA crystals drop out of solution as they form. They are continuously removed by filtration of a slipstream from the bottom of the reactor. The crude TPA is purified by aqueous methanol extraction that gives 99 % pure flakes. 

The chemical oxidation of cis- or iranx-stilbene was also investigated (Vinogradov et al. 1976). The oxidant was cobalt or manganese acetate and, in separate experiments, thallium trifluoroac-etate. Acetic or triflnoroacetic acid was used as a solvent. The results of such chemical oxidation were considered from the geometrical standpoint of the recovered (nonreacted) part of the initial substrate and stereoisomeric composition of the products obtained. This allowed the desirable comparison of electrochemical and chemical reactions to be made. 

In the Amoco process, p-xylene is oxidized at 200 °C under 15-20 atm in acetic acid and in the presence of a catalyst consisting of a mixture of cobalt acetate (5% weight of the solution), manganese acetate (1%) and ammonium bromide. Owing to the highly corrosive nature of the reaction mixture, special titanium reactor vessels are required. One of the main difficulties of this process is to remove the intermediate oxidation products such as p-toluic acid or p-carboxybenzal-dehyde which contaminate TPA obtained by precipitation from the reaction medium. A series of recrystallization and solvent extraction apparatus is required to obtain fiber grade TPA with 99.95% purity. The overall yield in TPA is ca. 90% for a 95% conversion of p-xylene. 

Nature of the Metallic Salt. The data in Figures 15, 16, and 17 also show the influence of another parameter—the nature of the metallic salt. The two kinds of salts were chosen because the chlorides are salts of a strong acid, and the acetate is that of a weak acid. The data obtained from both the duration of the reaction and the diamine quantity show that the kind of salt used is important to mechanochemical com-plexation. Use of manganese acetate gives scission of a larger number of complexing centers than does use of choride salts. 

Some commercial samples of precipitated manganese dioxide may be active enough for use directly in an oxidation process. To assess the activity of a sample of manganese dioxide, dissolve 0.25 g of pure cinnamyl alcohol in 50 ml of dry light petroleum (b.p. 40-60 °C) and shake the solution at room temperature for 2 hours with 2g of the sample of manganese dioxide (previously dried over phosphoric oxide). Filter, remove the solvent by evaporation and treat the residue with an excess of 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine sulphate in methanolt (Section 9.6.13, p. 1257). Collect the cinnamaldehyde 2,4-dinitrophenyl-hydrazone and crystallise it from ethyl acetate. An active dioxide should give a yield of the derivative, m.p. 255 °C (decomp.), in excess of 0.35 g (60%). 

Similarly, the cobalt acetate-catalyzed autoxidation of p-cymene afforded mainly p-isopropylbenzoic acid,243,244 246 derived from selective oxidation of the methyl group. Manganese acetate, on the other hand, was involved in a catalyzed autoxidation,... 

The main interest in (-)-encycloaddition processes to yield separable mixtures of diastereoisomeric urazoles. The non-destructive resolution of cyclooctatetraenes, which allows direct access to optically pure derivatives, is a typical illustration and has been amply demonstrated. Typically, (-)-enethyl acetate to afford a mixture of diastereoisomeric adducts, which can be separated by fractional recrystallization from ethyl acetate and hexane. HPLC is an alternative separation technique leading to both enantiomerically pure antipodes. The chiral auxiliary is subsequently removed by basic hydrolysis-manganese dioxide oxidation to afford the optically pure cyclooctatetraenes (eq 2). 

Manganic acetate (manganese triacetate), Mn(OCOCH3)3, is prepared by refluxing a solution of manganese acetate tetrahydrate in acetic acid with potassium permanganate [S03]. This oxidant hydroxylates ben-zylic methylene groups [416] and forms lactones from terminal alkenes [803, 804] (see equation 88). 

The roles of manganese in TPA manufacture are better understood than in the Witten process, and include decomposition of the CH2COOH radical (derived from the acetic acid solvent) and regeneration of the bromine atom promoter [13], In an effort to eliminate halogen compounds which are highly corrosive to oxidation equipment, use of acetaldehyde [14] and paraldehyde [15] has been developed. These aldehyde promoters are ultimately converted to acetic acid in high yield. For economic reasons, these aldehyde processes have been abandoned in favor of the bromine-promoted Amoco process. 

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