Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series – Organic compounds – Oxygen containing
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-29
2001-10-16
Keys, Rosalynd (Department: 1621)
Organic compounds -- part of the class 532-570 series
Organic compounds
Oxygen containing
C568S618000, C568S620000, C568S623000, C568S624000, C568S625000, C502S152000, C502S159000, C502S162000, C502S167000, C502S175000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06303833
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to crystalline multimetal cyanide complexes, mixtures thereof, processes for their preparation, their use as catalysts and a process for preparing polyetherpolyols using this catalyst.
Tailor-made polyetherpolyols are required for preparing polyurethane foams with a wide range of properties. For example, high molecular weight polyols are used for soft foams and shorter-chain polyols are used for hard foams.
Polyetherpolyols are, as a rule, prepared from alkylene oxides in the presence of a starter using various catalysts such as bases, hydrophobic bilayer hydroxides, acidic or Lewis-acidic systems, organometallic compounds or multimetal cyanide complex compounds.
There is increasing commercial interest in long-chain polyetherpolyols which have a low content of unsaturated components. Multimetal cyanide complex compounds have proven particularly suitable as catalysts for preparing such polyetherpolyols with low contents of unsaturated components.
Multimetal cyanide complex catalysts are known per se. These are, as a rule, compounds which are difficult to characterize by X-ray analysis, are of low crystallinity and, in some cases, are X-ray amorphous, or crystalline two-metal cyanides having a cubic structure.
EP-A-0 654 302 describes improved two-metal cyanide complex catalysts. Particular mention is made of zinc hexacyanocobaltate catalysts which are employed for polymerizing epoxides.
EP-A-0 743 093 describes highly active two-metal cyanide complex catalysts. The described catalysts are essentially amorphous and are based on zinc hexacyancobaltate. They are employed for polymerizing epoxides.
EP-A-0 755 716 describes highly active two-metal cyanide complex catalysts. They are essentially crystalline and are based on zinc hexacyanocobaltate complexes.
Two-metal cyanide catalysts are regarded as suitable for polymerizing epoxides either when they are amorphous, in which case they contain more than 0.2 mol of metal salt per mole of two-metal cyanide, or when they are crystalline, in which case they contain less than 0.2 mol of metal salt per mole of two-metal cyanide.
It is an object of the present invention to provide multimetal cyanide complexes which are substantially or completely crystalline and show high catalytic activity.
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Gehrer Eugen
Grosch Georg Heinrich
Junge Dieter
Larbig Harald
Lorenz Reinhard
BASF - Aktiengesellschaft
Borrego Fernando A.
Keys Rosalynd
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