申请人:UBE INDUSTRIES, LTD.
公开号:US20040039222A1
公开(公告)日:2004-02-26
A production process, especially a continuous production process, for a biphenyltetracarboxylic acid tetraester characterized by carrying out, in parallel, a step of preliminarily mixing a phthalic acid diester and a palladium compound-containing catalyst to prepare a starting mixture, a step of continuously or intermittently supplying the starting mixture to a reactor, a step of conducting oxidative dimerization reaction of the phthalic acid diester in a temperature range of from 140° C. and lower than 250° C. while supplying molecular oxygen to the reactor to form a reaction mixture in the reactor, and a step of continuously or intermittently removing a portion of the reaction mixture from the reactor. Preferably, the palladium compound-containing catalyst in the starting mixture is dissolved in the phthalic acid diester, the palladium compound-containing catalyst comprises a palladium compound, a bidentate ligand and a copper compound, the reactor consists of a plurality of serially connected reactors and a carboxylic acid is also continuously or intermittently supplied to the reactor.
一种生产过程,特别是用于制备二苯四羧酸四酯的连续生产过程,其特征在于并行进行以下步骤:预先混合邻苯二甲酸二酯和含钯化合物催化剂以制备起始混合物的步骤;连续或间歇地将起始混合物供给反应器的步骤;在向反应器供给分子氧以在温度范围从140°C至低于250°C内进行邻苯二甲酸二酯的氧化二聚反应以在反应器中形成反应混合物的步骤;以及连续或间歇地从反应器中移除部分反应混合物的步骤。优选,起始混合物中的含钯化合物催化剂溶解在邻苯二甲酸二酯中,含钯化合物催化剂包括钯化合物、双齿配体和铜化合物,反应器由多个串联的反应器组成,并且还连续或间歇地向反应器供给羧酸。