MANUFACTURE OF TEREPHTHALIC ACID FROM DIMETHYL TEREPHTHALATE

Japanese Patent JPS55141433

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In a process for the preparation of fiber-grade terephthalic acid from intermediate stage crude dimethyl terephthalate, the crude dimethyl terephthalate, which has a limited content of intermediate oxidation products including a content of terephthalaldehydic acid methyl ester of up to 0.1% by weight based on the weight of the crude dimethyl terephthalate, is hydrolyzed with water at a weight ratio of the crude dimethyl terephthalate to water of between 3:1 and 0.1:1 and at a temperature between 140 DEG C. and 350 DEG C. and under a pressure required to maintain a liquid phase (e.g., from 6 to 200 bars) to produce a reaction mixture containing crystalline fiber-grade terephtalic acid and thereafter the terephthalic acid is recovered from the reaction mixture. The initial crude dimethyl terephthalate used as a starting material is obtained from a crude ester mixture produced by the oxidation of p-xylene and/or methyl p-toluate with oxygen-containing gases in the presence of heavy metal-containing oxidation catalyst at an elevated temperature and under an elevated pressure and by esterification of the oxidation mixture with methanol at an elevated temperature and elevated pressure followed by separating the resulting crude ester mixture by distillation into a methyl p-toluate enriched fraction, a residual high-boiling fraction and the crude dimethyl terephthalate having the limited content of intermediate oxidation products.

ANTON SHIEENGEN
GEORUKU SHIYURAIBAA
HAINTSU SHIYUREEDAA

JP8832279A

November 05, 1980

July 13, 1979

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DYNAMIT NOBEL AG

C07C27/02; C07C51/00; C07C63/26; C07C51/09; C07C67/00; C07C69/82; (IPC1-7): C07C51/09; C07C63/26

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