Glutaral

Isocroionic acid, -crotonic acid, cis-croionic acid. Colourless needles m.p. 14 C, b.p. 169 C. Prepared by distilling -hydroxy-glutaric acid under reduced pressure. Converted to a-crotonic acid by heating at 180 C, or by the action of bromine and sunlight on an aqueous solution. 

Anhydrides of dibasic acids (succinic or glutaric acid type) may be prepared ... 

The oxidation of cyctopentanone (Section 111,73) with dilute nitric acid gives glutaric acid accompanied by some succinic acid the latter is removed as the sparingly-soluble barium salt ... 

In a 2-litre round-bottomed flask, equipped with a double surface condenser, place 60 g. of triniethylene dicyanide (Section 111,114) and 900 g. of 50 per cent, sulphuric acid (by weight). Reflux the mixture for 10 hours and allow to cool. Saturate the solution with ammonium sul phate and extract wit-h four 150 ml. portions of ether dry the ethereal extracts with anhydrous sodium or magnesium sulphate. Distil off the ether on a water bath the residual glutaric acid (69 g.) crystallises on cooling and has m.p. 97-97-5°. Upon recrystalhsation from chloroform, or benzene, or benzene mixed with 10 per cent, by weight of ether, the m.p. is 97 -5-98°. 

An alternative method of separation consists in treating the dry residue several times with a warm mixture of benzene and ether. The residual solid (about 20 g.) is moderately pure succinic acid, m.p. 183-184°. Upon evaporating the benzene - ether extract, and recrystallising the residue from chloroform or from benzene, about 70 g. of glutaric acid, m.p. 95-96°, are obtained. 

In the above reaction one molecular proportion of sodium ethoxide is employed this is Michael s original method for conducting the reaction, which is reversible and particularly so under these conditions, and in certain circumstances may lead to apparently abnormal results. With smaller amounts of sodium alkoxide (1/5 mol or so the so-called catal3rtic method) or in the presence of secondary amines, the equilibrium is usually more on the side of the adduct, and good yields of adducts are frequently obtained. An example of the Michael addition of the latter type is to be found in the formation of ethyl propane-1 1 3 3 tetracarboxylate (II) from formaldehyde and ethyl malonate in the presence of diethylamine. Ethyl methylene-malonate (I) is formed intermediately by the simple Knoevenagel reaction and this Is followed by the Michael addition. Acid hydrolysis of (II) gives glutaric acid (III). 

The last-named reaction provides an excellent method for the preparation of a-substituted glutaric acids the intermediate alkyl (aryl) -2-cyanoethyl-malonate is both hydrolysed and decarboxylated re ily by boiling with an excess of 48 per cent, hydrobromic acid solution. 

Carbonylation of butyrolactone using nickel or cobalt catalysts gives high yields of glutaric acid [110-94-1] (163). 

In addition to its ptincipal use in biocide formulations (94), glutaialdehyde has been used in the film development and leather tanning industries (95). It may be converted to 1,5-pentanediol [111 -29-5J or glutaric acid [110-94-1]. 

Acryhc esters dimerize to give the 2-methylene glutaric acid esters catalyzed by tertiary organic phosphines (37) or organic phosphorous triamides, phosphonous diamides, or phosphinous amides (38). Yields of 75—80% dimer, together with 15—20% trimer, are obtained. Reaction conditions can be varied to obtain high yields of trimer, tetramer, and other polymers. 

Although many variations of the cyclohexane oxidation step have been developed or evaluated, technology for conversion of the intermediate ketone—alcohol mixture to adipic acid is fundamentally the same as originally developed by Du Pont in the early 1940s (98,99). This step is accomplished by oxidation with 40—60% nitric acid in the presence of copper and vanadium catalysts. The reaction proceeds at high rate, and is quite exothermic. Yield of adipic acid is 92—96%, the major by-products being the shorter chain dicarboxytic acids, glutaric and succinic acids,and CO2. Nitric acid is reduced to a combination of NO2, NO, N2O, and N2. Since essentially all commercial adipic acid production arises from nitric acid oxidation, the trace impurities patterns ate similar in the products of most manufacturers. 

N). This area of the process has received considerable attention in recent years as companies strive to improve efficiency and reduce waste. Patents have appeared describing addition of SO2 to improve ion-exchange recovery of vanadium (111), improved separation of glutaric and succinic acids by dehydration and distillation of anhydrides (112), formation of imides (113), improved nitric acid removal prior to dibasic acid recovery (114), and other claims (115). 

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