JP2016026161A - Process for producing 2-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene by gas phase fluorination of pentachloropropane - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a process of producing 2-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (HCFO 1233xf), which is expected to be an important candidate substance of compounds that have low ODP (ozone depletion potential) and low GWP (global warming potential) and do not affect the ozone layer.SOLUTION: A production process comprises gas-phase catalytic fluorination of 1,1,1,2,3- pentachloropropane (HCC 240db) or/and 1,1,2,2,3-pentachloropropane (HCC 240aa) into HCFO 1233xf in the presence of oxygen and a co-catalyst selected from Ni, Co, Zn, Mn and mixtures thereof and supported on fluorinated alumina, fluorinated chromia, fluorinated activated carbon or graphite carbon.SELECTED DRAWING: None

Description

  The present invention relates to product 2 by catalytic fluorination of 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane (HCC 240db) and / or 1,1,2,2,3-pentachloropropane (HCC 240aa) in the gas phase. -It relates to a method for producing chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (HCFO 1233xf).

  The use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) was prohibited by the Montreal protocol for ozone layer protection. Instead of chlorofluorocarbons, compounds that have less impact on the ozone layer, such as hydrofluorocarbons, HFCs, such as HFC-134a, have come to be used. However, these compounds become greenhouse gases. Accordingly, there is a need to develop one with low ODE (ozone depletion potential) and low GWP (global warming potential). Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) have been identified as important candidates for compounds that do not affect the ozone layer, but there is still a need to find compounds that exhibit relatively high GWP values and even lower GWP values. Yes. Hydrofluoroolefins (HFO) are considered to be an alternative with very low ODE and GWP values.

  Several methods for producing this HFO compound, particularly propylene, have been developed. Two mixtures are particularly desirable: 1234yf (2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene) and 1233xf (2-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene).

In Patent Document 1 (US Patent Publication No. US2009 / 0240090), 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane (HCC 240db) is subjected to a gas phase reaction in an oxygen-free state to give 2-chloro-3 as a product. , 3,3-trifluoropropene (HCFO 1233xf) is described. Example 3 of this patent uses a catalyst consisting of fluorinated Cr ₂ O ₃ . The resulting product 1233xf is then converted to the product 2-chloro-1,1,1,2-tetrafluoropropane (244bb) in a liquid phase reaction.

  Patent Document 2 (International Patent Publication No. WO2009 / 015317) includes 1,1,2,3-tetrachloro-1-propene (1230xa), 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane (240db) or A method is disclosed in which a chlorinated product such as 2,3,3,3-tetrachloro-1-propene (1230xf) is reacted with HF in the gas phase in the presence of at least one stabilizer on a catalyst. In this way, 2-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoro-1-propene (1233xf) is obtained. However, there is no example using 240 db as a starting material. Stabilizers are said to improve catalyst life. Regular regeneration is also considered.

In Example 3 of Patent Document 3 (International Patent Publication No. WO 2005/108334), a 250-250 feedthrough reactor having 50 g of 1/8 inch Cr ₂ 0 ₃ catalyst bed in the presence of HF in an excess of 5 moles of 240 db. 244db (2-chloro-1,1,1,3-tetrafluoropropane) is obtained through a contact time of about 5 to 50 seconds at 400 ° C. The product 1234ze (1,3,3,3-tetrafluoro) was then dehydrochlorinated by passing 244db over Cr ₂ O ₃ catalyst (50 g) at a temperature of 425-550 ° C. with a contact time of 25-30 seconds. Propen).

  Patent Document 4 (UK Patent Publication GB-A-109103) discloses a method for producing a chromium fluorination catalyst. A number of compounds have been shown that can be fluorinated using this catalyst, among which pentachloropropane is mentioned but is not preferred.

US Patent Publication No. US2009 / 0240090 International Patent Publication No. WO2009 / 015317 International Patent Publication No. WO2005 / 108334 British Patent Publication No. GB-A-109103

  Thus, there remains a need for methods for producing the compound 1233xf.

  In the present invention, in the presence of a catalyst and oxygen, 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane or / and 1,1,2,2,3-pentachloropropane are catalytically fluorinated in the gas phase to produce 2- A method for providing chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene is provided.

Here are some examples:
(1) The ratio of oxygen to pentachloropropane (240) is 0.05 to 15 mol%, preferably 0.5 to 10 mol%.
(2) The method of the present invention is carried out in the presence of a catalyst containing Ni—Cr, preferably the supported catalyst.
(3) The catalyst is supported on a support selected from fluorinated alumina, fluorinated chromina, fluorinated activated carbon or graphite carbon.
(4) The catalyst further comprises a cocatalyst selected from Ni, Co, Zn, Mn or mixtures thereof, preferably a nickel cocatalyst, preferably about 1-10 wt.% Of the fluorination catalyst. % Present.
(5) The fluorination catalyst is activated with a fluorine-containing compound, preferably hydrogen fluoride, preferably at a pressure of 10 bar or higher.
(6) 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane contains up to 40 mol% of 1,1,2,2,3-pentachloropropane isomer.
(7) The process according to the invention is carried out at a pressure of 1 to 20 bar, preferably 3 to 15 bar, more preferably 5 to 10 bar.
(8) The method of the present invention is performed at a temperature of 200 to 450 ° C, preferably 300 to 430 ° C, more preferably 320 to 420 ° C.
(9) The method of the present invention is carried out with a contact time of 6 to 100 seconds, preferably 10 to 80 seconds, more preferably 15 to 50 seconds.
(10) The molar ratio of HF: 240 is 3: 1 to 150: 1, preferably 4: 1 to 70: 1, more preferably 5: 1 to 50: 1.
(11) A polymerization inhibitor, preferably a polymerization inhibitor selected from p-methoxyphenol, t-amylphenol, limonene, d, l-limonene, quinone, hydroquinone, epoxy resin, amine and mixtures thereof. .
(12) The method of the present invention is carried out continuously.

  The invention further relates to the product obtained at the stage of the process according to the invention, in particular a mixture comprising mainly 1233xf and impure and / or unreacted starting materials and / or by-products.

  The present invention provides a process to carry out the reaction so that 1233xf can be obtained by catalytic fluorination of 240 db (and / or 240 aa) in the gas phase and oxygen can be cofed with 240 to improve catalyst life. Based on the discovery that conditions can be selected.

  A part of 240aa is converted to the desired product and the by-product considered to be 243 type can be used effectively in other reactions. Thus, even if the starting material 240aa is not completely converted to the desired 1233xf, the resulting product has value.

The catalyst used in the present invention is, for example, a metal based on a transition metal oxide or a derivative thereof or a halide or oxyhalide of this metal. The catalyst is, for example, FeCl ₃ , chromium oxyfluoride, chromium oxide (which may be fluorinated if necessary), chromium fluoride and mixtures thereof. Other possible catalysts are carbon supported catalysts, antimony based catalysts, aluminum based catalysts (AlF ₃ and Al ₂ O ₃ and alumina oxyfluorides and aluminum fluoride). Supported or non-contained including commonly used catalysts and metals such as chromium oxyfluoride, aluminum fluoride and oxyfluoride and Cr, Ni, Zn, Ti, V, Zr, Mo, Ge, Sn, Pb, Mg It is a supported catalyst. Moreover, the 7th page of patent document 5, the 1st line, the 5th line, the 28th line, the 32nd line, paragraph [0022] of patent document 6, the 9th page of patent document 7, the 22nd line, and the 10th page, 10th page. Reference may be made to claim 1, patent document 8, on the line. These contents form part of this specification.
International Patent Publication No. WO-A-2007 / 077941 European Patent Publication No. EP-A-939071 International Patent Publication No. W02008 / 054781 International Patent Publication No. WO2008 / 040969

Prior to use, the catalyst is activated. In general, it is activated with HF at high pressure, generally about 10 bar or higher (generally higher than that used in gas phase processes) as described in US Pat. The contents of this patent document form part of the present specification. Other suitable conditions other than this are also suitable.
US Patent No. US-A-7485598

  The preferred embodiment uses a specific catalyst that is a hybrid catalyst comprising chromium and nickel. The molar ratio of Cr: Ni to metal element is generally between 0.5 and 5, preferably between 0.7 and 2, close to 1. The catalyst can contain 0.5 to 20% by weight chromium and 0.5 to 20%, preferably 2 to 10% nickel.

  The metal is either in the form of a metal or in the form of oxides, halides or derivatives thereof including oxyhalides and obtained by activation of the catalytic metal. Metal activation is not required but is preferred.

The support is preferably aluminum. Other supports such as alumina, activated alumina or aluminum derivatives can also be used. These derivatives include, for example, aluminum, aluminum halides and halide oxides described in Patent Document 10, and are obtained by an activation method described later.
US Patent No. US-P-4902838

The catalyst has chromium or nickel activated or not activated on an activated or unactivated carrier. With respect to the catalyst, reference can be made to Patent Document 11, particularly, page 4, line 30 to page 7, line 16. This is a part of the present specification.
US Patent Publication No. W02009 / 118628

Furthermore, the catalyst can preferably be an unsupported high surface area Cr-based catalyst. The catalyst can optionally contain low levels of one or more cocatalysts, such as Co, Zn, Mn, Mg and Ni salts. Preferably the cocatalyst is nickel. Another preferred cocatalyst is Zn and another preferred cocatalyst is Mg. A high surface area Cr-based catalyst is described on pages 4 and 6 of US Pat.
International Patent Publication No. W02009 / 158321

  The method of the present invention is preferably carried out by a continuous method.

  The fluorination process of the present invention involves contacting 240db with HF in the gas phase in the reaction zone under conditions sufficient to convert 240db to a fluorinated product consisting primarily of 1233xf.

  The process according to the invention is generally carried out at a HF: 240 molar ratio of 3: 1 to 150: 1, preferably 1: 1 to 4:70, more preferably 5: 1 to 50: 1. The process according to the invention is generally carried out at a pressure of 1 to 20 bar, preferably 3 to 1 bar, more preferably 5 to 10 bar. The process according to the invention is generally carried out at a temperature of 200 to 450 ° C., preferably 300 to 430 ° C., more preferably 320 to 420 ° C. The temperature of the reactor bed can be substantially uniform or can be adjusted in the direction of flow to decrease or increase along the flow path.

  Contact time (catalyst volume divided by total flow rate of reactant and co-feed, adjusted by operating pressure and temperature) is generally 6-100 seconds, preferably 10-80 seconds, more preferably 15-50 seconds. It is.

  The co-feed of oxygen is used to extend the catalyst life, and the amount of oxygen or chlorine per molecule of pentachloropropane is generally 0.05 to 15 mol%, preferably 0.5 to 10 mol%. Oxygen can be introduced in the form of an oxygen-containing gas such as air, pure oxygen or an oxygen / nitrogen mixture.

Polymerization inhibitors can be used to extend catalyst life. The amount can generally be about 50-1000 ppm, preferably 100-500 ppm. The polymerization inhibitor can be p-methoxyphenol, t-amylphenol, limonene, d, l-limonene, quinone, hydroquinone, epoxy resin, amine and mixtures thereof. A preferred polymerization inhibitor is p-methoxy, which can control the polymerization of chloroolefins as described in US Pat. Can be extended.
US Pat. No. 5,714,651

  The reactants can be fed from the same location in the reactor, different locations or multiple feed locations arranged along the reactor. A preferred feed system is a method of blowing gaseous reactants from the bottom of the reactor.

  Recirculation can take place at the reactor inlet or at an intermediate stage of the reactor, preferably at the reactor inlet. It is also possible to recycle part of the flow leaving the reactor.

  The reaction is carried out in a dedicated reactor for reactions involving halogens. Reactors of this type are known to those skilled in the art and include, for example, those based on Hastelloy®, Inconel®, Monel® or fluorine copolymers. The reactor can be equipped with a heat exchanger as required.

The final product can be easily recovered by any known means such as scrubbing, washing, extraction, decantation, preferably distillation. It can be further purified by distillation.
Examples of the present invention will be described below, but the present invention is not limited to the following examples.

  The equipment used consisted of an INCONEL® alloy 600 tubular reactor surrounded by a tubular oven and having an inner diameter of 19 mm. This reactor is equipped with a pressure gauge and a temperature control device. The reaction was pre-evaporated with a heater, converted to the gas phase, washed from the top of the reactor, and analyzed online by gas phase chromatography equipped with a low polarity capillary column. Chromatographic analysis was performed using a column CP Sil 8CB (size 50 m * 0.32 mm * 5 μm). The oven temperature was programmed to rise to 70 ° C. for 10 minutes and then to 250 ° C. at a rate of 10 ° C./min.

  The conversion (%) is (xi−xf) / xi * 100 where xi is the initial molar amount of the material and xf is the total molar yield of the material. Product selectivity is calculated from the sum and ratio of the recovered molar amount of product and the molar amount of product reacted. The molar ratio of HF (MR HF) is defined as the ratio of the molar flow rate of HF to the molar flow rate of 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane.

Example 1
It was performed fluorination of 240db (1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane) above reactor using Ni-Cr catalyst 79.4Cm ³ which is supported on A1F _3. The catalyst used was a Ni / Cr atomic ratio = 1 hybrid nickel / chromium catalyst supported on fluorinated alumina, impregnated with a solution of nickel and anhydrous chromium (CrO ₃ ), and after impregnation and drying, the solid was obtained in 320%. It was made by treatment with a mixture of hydrofluoric acid and nitrogen (the concentration of the acid in the nitrogen was 5 to 10% by volume) at a temperature between.

  Anhydrous HF was continuously supplied to the reactor at 15 g and 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane at a rate of 4.5 g / hr for 86 hours under atmospheric pressure. Accordingly, the contact time is 7.4 seconds, and the molar ratio of HF to 240 is 36. The reaction temperature is 340 ° C., and the amount of oxygen is about 4 mol with respect to 240 db. The results are shown in [Table 1].

Example 2
Example 1 shows a mixture of 65.9 mol% of 240 db or 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane and 34.9 mol% of 240 aa or 1,1,2,2,3-pentachloropropane. Fluorinated by the method described. The reactor was fed continuously with anhydrous H at 16 g / hour and 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane at about 5.1 g / hour under atmospheric pressure. Therefore, the contact time was 6.9 seconds, the molar ratio was 34, and the reaction temperature was 340 ° C. The amount of oxygen with respect to the total number of moles of 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane and 1,1,2,2,3-pentachloropropane is about 4 mol%. The results are shown in [Table 1].

Examples 3 and 4
The operation of Example 2 was repeated at different temperatures shown in [Table 1].

  In Example 1, no deactivation was observed after 86 hours. It is also worth noting that extremely high selectivity continues.

Claims (13)

  2-chloro-3,3 produced by vapor phase catalytic fluorination of 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane and / or 1,1,2,2,3-pentachloropropane in the presence of catalyst and oxygen A process for producing 3-trifluoropropene.   The process according to claim 1, wherein the ratio of oxygen to pentachloropropane (240) is 0.05-15 mol%, preferably 0.5-10 mol%.   3. A process according to claim 1 or 2, carried out in the presence of a supported catalyst comprising Ni-Cr, preferably.   4. A process according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the catalyst is supported on a support selected from fluorinated alumina, fluorinated chromia, fluorinated activated carbon or graphite carbon.   The catalyst further comprises a cocatalyst selected from Ni, Co, Zn, Mn or mixtures thereof, preferably a nickel cocatalyst, preferably in an amount of about 1-10% by weight of the fluorination catalyst. A process according to any one of claims 1 to 4 present in   6. Process according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the fluorination catalyst is activated with a fluorine-containing compound, preferably hydrogen fluoride, preferably at a pressure of 10 bar or higher.   The process according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane contains up to 40 mol% of 1,1,2,2,3-pentachloropropane isomer.   8. A process according to any one of the preceding claims, which is carried out at a pressure of 1 to 20 bar, preferably 3 to 15 bar, more preferably 5 to 10 bar. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, which is carried out at a temperature of 200 to 450 ° C, preferably 300 to 430 ° C, more preferably 320 to 420 ° C.
  10. A method according to any one of claims 9 to 9 which is carried out with a contact time of 6 to 100 seconds, preferably 10 to 80 seconds, more preferably 15 to 50 seconds.   11. A HF: 240 molar ratio of 3: 1 to 150: 1, preferably 4: 1 to 70: 1, more preferably 5: 1 to 50: 1. Method.   A polymerization inhibitor, preferably comprising a polymerization inhibitor selected from p-methoxyphenol, t-amylphenol, limonene, d, l-limonene, quinone, hydroquinone, epoxy resin, amine and mixtures thereof. The method as described in any one of -11.   The method according to claim 1, which is a continuous method.