C - Chemistry – Metallurgy – 07 – C
Patent
C - Chemistry, Metallurgy
07
C
204/91.22
C07C 45/30 (2006.01) B01J 19/08 (2006.01) C07C 49/784 (2006.01) C07C 49/813 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1337558
It is desired to find an alternative way to produce benzophenones or substituted benzophenones which does so selectively and avoids the problems of previous methods that use, for example, large amounts of an aluminum chloride catalyst or nitric acid. In the invention process, a diphenyl methane starting material (DPM) in a hydrophobic phase is oxidized in a photolytic process by contact with an aqueous phase containing greater than 1 mole of HBr and at least 1.5 moles of H2O2, both per mole of DPM, the radiation being capable of dissociating bromine to its radicals, and especially using light of wavelength 600 to 250 nm. Preferably, a reaction temperature of around 50 to 65°C is used, the organic solvent comprising a suitably boiling chlorinated carbon or hydrocarbon. The H2O2 is introduced progressively into the reaction mixture. The benzophenone product is recovered substantially in the organic phase, whereas most of the bromine/bromide is retained in the aqueous phase which can be re-employed in a subsequent oxidation of DPM, possibly after restoration of the bromide to its initial concentration. In a modification to the process, by suitably controlling the mole ratios of bromide and H2O2 to DPM at about 1:1:1, and preferably using a reaction temperature of about ambient to 35°C, the DPM can be substituted by a single bromine atom on the methane carbon also with good selectivity, instead of being oxidized to the benzophenone.
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Dear Kenneth Michael
Turner Philip James
Riches Mckenzie & Herbert Llp
Solvay Interox Limited
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