Industrial solvents aniline

Industrial Solvents Handbook Table 14.89 N-Mono-n-Butyl Aniline (2)... 

The identification problem or the specificity of the determination can be a complicated matter because of the large number of analytes, matrix components, and the variability of environmental matrices depending upon location. There are now over 11 million organic compounds recognized by the Chemical Abstracts Registry, with over 30000 compounds considered as chemicals of commerce, and perhaps 500 to 1000 routinely measured as members of industrial solvents, disinfection by-products, insecticides, PNAs, herbicides, organochlorine pesticides, PCBs, phenols, anilines, benzidines, and potential endocrine-disrupting compounds. 

The largest user of phenol in the form of thermosetting resins is the plastics industry. Phenol is also used as a solvent and in the manufacture of intermediates for pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and dyestuffs. Styrene is used in the manufacture of synthetic rubber and polystyrene resins. Phthalic anhydride is used in the manufacture of DMT, alkyd resins, and plasticizers such as phthalates. Maleic anhydride is used in the manufacture of polyesters and, to some extent, for alkyd resins. Minor uses include the manufacture of malathion and soil conditioners. Nitrobenzene is used in the manufacture of aniline, benzidine, and dyestuffs and as a solvent in polishes. Aniline is used in the manufacture of dyes, including azo dyes, and rubber chemicals such as vulcanization accelerators and antioxidants. 

Nitro functions are easily reductively alkylated and a number of alkylated anilines are made industrially starting with the appropriate nitroaromatic in the ketone as solvent. The addition reaction can occur at the hydroxylamine intermediate as well as the aniline. A process step is saved by beginning with the nitro compound. 

Alicyclic amines are used as pesticides, plasticizers, explosives, inhibitors of metal corrosion and sweetening agents as well as having uses in the pharmaceuticals industry. Aniline hydrogenation has been studied in the literature with the main reaction products cyclohexylamine, dicyclohexylamine, A-phenylcyclohexylamine, diphenylamine, ammonia, benzene, cyclohexane, cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone [1-9], The products formed depend on the catalyst used, reaction temperature, solvent and whether the reaction is performed in gas or liquid phase. For example high temperature, gas-phase aniline hydrogenation over Rh/Al203 produced cyclohexylamine and dicyclohexylamine as the main products [1],... 

The reduction of nitrobenzene to aniline is a major industrial process at the heart of the production of polyurethanes, and it is also often used as a marker reaction to compare activities of catalysts [1,2], It can be performed over a variety of catalysts and in a variety of solvents. As well as its main use in polymethanes, aniline is used in a wide range of industries such as dyes, agrochemicals, by further reaction and functionalisation. Reductive alkylation is one such way of functionalising aromatic amines [3, 4], The reaction usually takes place between an amine and a ketone, aldehyde or alcohol. However it is possible to reductively alkylate direct from the nitro precursor to the amine and in this way remove a processing step. In this study we examined the reductive alkylation of nitrobenzene and aniline by 1-hexanol. 

Uses. Manufacture of phenol, aniline, DDT solvent for paint color printing dry cleaning industry... 

Uses Nitrobenzene is a colorless to pale yellow liquid. It has been used extensively in a variety of industries, (e.g., the manufacture of aniline dyes and soaps, as solvent for paints, for refining lubricating oils, as shoe polish, floor polish, dressings for leather products, the manufacture of explosives). 

Dipheny[amine (7) is prepared industrially either by heating aniline with aniline hydrochloride at 140 °C under pressure, or by heating aniline with phenol at 260 °C in the presence of zinc chloride. The most convenient laboratory synthesis uses the Ullmann reaction (Scheme 8.9) (see Chapter 10), in which acetanilide is refluxed with bromobenzene in the presence of potassium carbonate and copper powder in nitrobenzene solvent. Triphenylamine is similarly prepared from diphenylamine and iodobenzene. 

Separation of benzene/cyclohexane mixture is investigated most extensively. This is not surprising because separation of this mixture is very important in practical terms. Benzene is used to produce a broad range of valuable chemical products styrene (polystyrene plastics and synthetic rubber), phenol (phenolic resins), cyclohexane (nylon), aniline, maleic anhydride (polyester resins), alkylbenzenes and chlorobenzenes, drugs, dyes, plastics, and as a solvent. Cyclohexane is used as a solvent in the plastics industry and in the conversion of the intermediate cyclohexanone, a feedstock for nylon precursors such as adipic acid. E-caprolactam, and hexamethylenediamine. Cyclohexane is produced mainly by catalytic hydrogenation of benzene. The unreacted benzene is present in the reactor s effluent stream and must be removed for pure cyclohexane recovery. 

Nitrobenzene is an industrial chemical. Most of the nitrobenzene produced in the United States is used to manufacture aniline. Nitrobenzene is also used to produce lubricating oils such as those used in motors and machinery. A small amount of nitrobenzene is used, sometimes as a solvent, in the manufacture of dyes, polishes, paints, drugs, pesticides, and synthetic rubber (Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, OPPT). 

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