Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds – Unsaturated compound synthesis – Diolefin product
Patent
1980-12-01
1983-04-26
Howard, Jacqueline V.
Chemistry of hydrocarbon compounds
Unsaturated compound synthesis
Diolefin product
585607, 585609, 585610, 585639, 585640, C07C 124, C07C 1118
Patent
active
043814166
ABSTRACT:
A process for producing isoprene, which comprises decomposing a mixture of at least two compounds represented by the general formula ##STR1## wherein (i) W and Y each represent a hydrogen atom, and X and Z are identical or different and each represent the group OR, (ii) W and X together form a single bond, Y represents a hydrogen atom and Z represents the group OR, (iii) W represents a hydrogen atom, X and Y together form a single bond, and Z represents the group OR, or (iv) W represents a hydrogen atom, X represents the group OR, and Y and Z together form a single bond, in which R represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, a methoxymethyl group, a methylbutenyl group, a methylbutenyloxymethyl group, a 1,1-dimethyl-3-hydroxypropyl group, a 1,1-dimethyl-3-hydroxypropyloxymethyl group, a 3-methyl-3-hydroxybutyl group, a 3-methyl-3-hydroxybutyloxymethyl group, a 1,1-dimethyl-3-methoxypropyl group, a 1,1-dimethyl-3-methoxypropyloxymethyl group, a 3-methyl-3-methoxybutyl group or a 3-methyl-3-methoxybutyloxymethyl group, at least one compound of the mixture being a compound of general formula (I) in which R is a methoxymethyl group, a methylbutenyloxymethyl group, a 1,1-dimethyl-3-hydroxypropyloxymethyl group, a 3-methyl-3-hydroxybutyloxymethyl group, a 1,1-dimethyl-3-methoxypropyloxymethyl group or a 3-methyl-3-methoxybutyloxymethyl group, in the presence of water and an oxygen-containing boron compound selected from the group consisting of boron-oxyacids and boron compounds capable of generating the boron-oxyacids in situ under the reaction conditions, in the liquid phase at a temperature of at least 150.degree. C. while adjusting the ratio of the oxygen-containing boron compound to the entire water present in the reaction system such that the weight ratio of ortho-boric acid to water, calculated on the assumption that all the oxygen-containing boron compound changes in aqueous solution to orthoboric acid, is at least maintained at 15:85.
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Kyo Sunao
Omura Katsumi
Renge Tumoru
Howard Jacqueline V.
Kuraray Co. Ltd.
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