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• the present invention relates to a method for producing 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride.
• Alicyclic acid anhydrides have been used as starting materials for functional polyimides and functional epoxy resins.
• 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride is used as a starting material for polyimide resins that exhibit particularly good heat resistance, solvent solubility and thermoplasticity as well as low water absorbability, dimensional stability and the like.
• an acid anhydride and a diamine are desirably used in equivalent amounts because the molecular weight of the polyimide does not sufficiently increase when the molar balance of the acid anhydride and the diamine is lost. Also, impurities contained in the diamine and the acid anhydride cause the loss of molar balance. Accordingly, the acid anhydride as a starting material is required to have a high purity.
• An acid anhydride is known to be obtained by subjecting a hydrogenated aromatic polycarboxylic acid to a dehydration reaction.
• 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride is produced by cyclodehydration of 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid.
• a method involving a heat treatment or a method involving a dehydrating agent is commonly used to synthesize a cyclic acid anhydride by dehydrating and ring-closing the carboxy groups adjacently bonded to the 6-membered ring of a hydrogenated aromatic polycarboxylic acid.
• An acid anhydride such as acetic anhydride or propionic anhydride is used as a dehydrating agent.
• a method involving thermal reflux using acetic anhydride is known as a method for cyclodehydrating 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid (see PTL1).
• PTL 1 discloses that a hydrogenated aromatic polycarboxylic acid is dehydrated by a method involving acetic anhydride as a dehydrating agent, but the method has the following problem: the high dehydration rate set forth in PTL 1 cannot be reproduced depending on the conditions.
• An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride, which is capable of stably achieving a high dehydration rate.
• the present inventors found that the dehydration rate is improved by feeding 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid in a divided or continuous manner to a dehydrating agent, and accomplished the present invention.
• the present invention provides [1] to [11] below.
• a method for producing 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride by subjecting 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid to a dehydration reaction in a slurry state in the presence of a dehydrating agent, wherein the 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is fed in a divided or continuous manner to the dehydrating agent.
• a reaction temperature of the dehydration reaction is 80 to 150° C. (preferably 90° C. or more and more preferably 95° C. or more, and preferably 140° C. or less, more preferably 130° C. or less, and even more preferably 120° C. or less).
• a method for producing 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride which is capable of stably achieving a high dehydration rate, can be provided.
• a to B indicating a numerical range denotes “A or more and B or less” (in the case of A ⁇ B) or “A or less and B or more” (in the case of A>B). That is, “A to B” denotes a numerical range including end points A and B.
• part by mass and % by mass are synonymous with part by weight and % by weight, respectively.
• the method for producing 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride (hereinafter also simply referred to as “cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride”) of the present invention is a method for producing 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride by subjecting 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid (hereinafter also simply referred to as “cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid”) to a dehydration reaction in a slurry state in the presence of a dehydrating agent, wherein the 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is fed in a divided or continuous manner to the dehydrating agent.
• 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride is a method for producing 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride by subjecting 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxy
• the dehydrating agent and the optionally used solvent may be collectively referred to as a “solution.”
• either the cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid as a starting material or the cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride as a product is not completely dissolved in a solution at least in the final stage of the reaction. Accordingly, the reaction proceeds in a slurry state at least when the addition of the starting material is finished.
• the dehydration reaction of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid proceeds in a state where cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is dissolved in a dehydrating agent and an optionally added solvent (solution), and cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride is produced. It is considered that, at this time, the reaction proceeds in a slurry state, and thus the produced cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride precipitates while incorporating cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid present in the solution. That is, dehydration (a dehydration reaction) and a crystal precipitation reaction progress at the same time.
• the concentration of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid in the solution increases especially when the particle size of the cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid as a starting material is small, thus the cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid as a starting material is incorporated and precipitates when the cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride as a product undergoes crystal precipitation, and accordingly the dehydration rate is impaired.
• the present invention by adding the cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid as a starting material in a divided or continuous manner, the cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid concentration in the reaction system is suppressed, as a result, the amount of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid incorporated into the cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride as a product is suppressed, and a high dehydration rate is stably obtained.
• 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is not particularly limited.
• a commercially available product may be purchased, or 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid may be produced by nuclear hydrogenation of pyromellitic acid.
• the method for producing 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid by nuclear hydrogenation of pyromellitic acid is not particularly limited. Examples include, but are not limited to, a method in which pyromellitic acid is dissolved or suspended in a reaction solvent and hydrogenated in the presence of a catalyst at a hydrogen partial pressure of 1.0 to 15 MPa at a reaction temperature of 30 to 80° C.
• a supported catalyst containing rhodium as well as palladium and/or platinum supported on a carbon carrier is used in a specific amount as the catalyst, as described in WO 2010/010869; and a method in which pyromellitic acid is hydrogenated at a hydrogen partial pressure of 1 MPa or more in the presence of a catalyst containing a noble metal composed of rhodium or palladium or both in a proportion of 0.5 to 10 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of pyromellitic acid, as described in PTL1.
• the catalyst is separated by filtration at a temperature similar to the reaction temperature, the filtrate is cooled to room temperature, the precipitated solids are separated by filtration, the filtered solids are dried, and thereby 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid can be obtained.
• the reaction solvent is distilled off from the filtrate to concentrate the filtrate, the precipitated solids are separated by filtration, then the hydrogenated product of pyromellitic acid is crystallized by being cooled, concentrated, or the like, the crystals thereof are subjected to solid-liquid separation, and thereby high-purity 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid can be obtained.
• the average particle size of the 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid as a starting material is not particularly limited.
• the average particle size of 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is preferably 20 ⁇ m or more and more preferably 40 ⁇ m or more.
• the upper limit is not particularly limited, and is preferably 1000 ⁇ m or less and more preferably 500 ⁇ m or less.
• the present inventors found that, as in the present invention, a good dehydration rate can be obtained even when a starting material having a small average particle size is used by feeding cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid in a divided or continuous manner. Accordingly, the dehydration rate improving effect attained when the cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid as a starting material is fed in a divided or continuous manner as in the present invention is more significant when the starting material has a smaller average particle size.
• the dehydration rate improving effect is significant when the average particle size of the starting material 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is less than 20 ⁇ m, more significant when less than 15 ⁇ m, even more significant when less than 10 ⁇ m, and further significant when less than 7 ⁇ m.
• the dehydration rate improving effect is recognized even when the average particle size of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is large. As described above, the dehydration rate improving effect is particularly significant when the average particle size of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is small.
• the average particle size of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid the lengths of the major axes of 100 particles on a 100 ⁇ or 1000 ⁇ image taken by a field emission-scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) are measured using image processing software Image J.
• the average value of the resulting major axis lengths of the particles is regarded as the average particle size of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid.
• a dehydrating agent and an optionally used solvent into a reaction vessel in advance and feed cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid thereto in a divided or continuous manner.
• cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is fed in a divided manner, cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid to be fed in the first instance may be charged into the reaction vessel together with the dehydrating agent and the optionally used solvent.
• the dehydrating agent used in the present invention is not particularly limited, and is suitably selected from known dehydrating agents and used.
• known dehydrating agents include acetic anhydride, propionic anhydride, trifluoroacetic anhydride, succinic anhydride, maleic anhydride, benzoic anhydride, phthalic anhydride, acetyl chloride, phosphoric acid chloride, thionyl chloride, and phosgene.
• the dehydrating agent is preferably acetic anhydride from the viewpoint of economy and usability.
• acetic anhydride is preferably used in an amount of 2.0 to 100 moles per mole of 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid.
• acetic anhydride is preferably used in an amount of 2.0 moles or more, more preferably 2.5 moles or more, and even more preferably 3 moles or more, and from the viewpoint of economy and from the viewpoint of removing the dehydrating agent after reaction, acetic anhydride is preferably used in an amount of 100 moles or less, more preferably 75 moles or less, even more preferably 50 moles or less, further preferably 25 moles or less, and furthermore preferably 5 moles or less.
• acetic anhydride used as a dehydrating agent is a liquid and thus also functions as a solvent.
• cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is subjected to a dehydration reaction (also referred to as an anhydration reaction) in a slurry state in the presence of a dehydrating agent.
• the slurry state means that the cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid as a starting material does not completely dissolve in a dehydrating agent and an optionally added solvent and partially exists in a solid state and, also, the produced acid anhydride does not completely dissolve in the dehydrating agent and the optionally added solvent and partially exists in a solid state. Accordingly, a state where either the starting material or the product or both partially exist in a solid state in the reaction system is referred to as a slurry state.
• the dehydration reaction is carried out in a slurry state. This is not to exclude an embodiment in which the cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid as a starting material and the cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride as a product are completely dissolved in the initial stage of feeding the starting material.
• the reaction temperature of the dehydration reaction is preferably 80° C. or more, more preferably 90° C. or more, and even more preferably 95° C. or more.
• the reaction temperature in the dehydration reaction is preferably 150° C. or less, more preferably 140° C. or less, even more preferably 130° C. or less, and further preferably 120° C. or less.
• the dehydration reaction may involve only heating the slurry of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid and a dehydrating agent, or may involve heating the dehydrating agent to reflux.
• the dehydration reaction is preferably carried out in an atmosphere of an inert gas such as nitrogen gas.
• the solvent is not particularly limited, and acetic acid (also referred to as glacial acetic acid) is preferably used as a solvent.
• Acetic acid is preferably used in an amount of 0.5 to 10 times by volume and more preferably 1 to 5 times by volume based on the dehydrating agent.
• a hydrocarbon, a halogenated hydrocarbon, an ester, a ketone, an ether, a fatty acid, or the like having a boiling point of 50° C. or more may be added as a solvent.
• the cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid as a starting material is fed in a divided or continuous manner to the dehydrating agent.
• feeding in a divided or continuous manner means feeding cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid in at least two divided portions to the dehydrating agent, or continuously feeding cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid to the dehydrating agent.
• Feeding in a divided manner does not mean that the entirety of the divided portions is fed at once, but means that the divided portions are fed in multiple steps that are separated by intervals.
• An embodiment in which cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is fed in a continuous manner and an embodiment in which cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is fed in a divided manner may be combined, and such a combined embodiment is also encompassed within the present invention.
• Specific examples are an embodiment in which part of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is fed at once or in several divided portions, and then the remainder of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is fed in a continuous manner; and an embodiment in which part of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is fed in an continuous manner, and then the remainder is fed at once or in several divided portions.
• Cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid when fed in a divided manner is divided into two or more portions, preferably divided into three or more portions, and more preferably divided into five or more portions from the viewpoint of improving the dehydration rate.
• the upper limit of the number of divided portions is not particularly limited, and may be, for example, 30 or less, 20 or less, or 10 or less.
• the amount of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid for each feeding is not particularly limited, and cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is preferably fed in equally divided portions.
• the amount for each feeding is preferably 1 ⁇ 2 or less of the entirety of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid fed, more preferably 1 ⁇ 3 or less, and even more preferably 1 ⁇ 5 or less. The smaller the amount for each feeding is, the more preferable it is, and, as will be described below, continuous feeding is particularly preferable.
• the intervals of divided feeding are not particularly limited, and are preferably 5/X (minutes) to 600/X (minutes), more preferably 15/X (minutes) to 300/X (minutes), and even more preferably from 30/X (minutes) to 120/X (minutes) where X is the number of divided portions.
• reaction is preferably continued for 0.1 to 100 hours, more preferably 0.2 to 30 hours, and even more preferably 0.3 to 10 hours.
• the feeding rate is not particularly limited, and may be constant or may be suitably changed during feeding. In consideration of the ease of feeding, the feeding rate is preferably constant. Where the average feeding rate per 10 minutes is Y, the feeding rate per any 10 minutes is preferably 0.1 Y to 10 Y, more preferably 0.3 Y to 5 Y, and even more preferably 0.5 Y to 2 Y.
• the feeding time when feeding is carried out in a continuous manner is preferably 5 minutes to 1000 minutes, more preferably 15 minutes to 500 minutes, and even more preferably 30 minutes to 300 minutes.
• reaction is preferably continued for 0.01 to 10 hours, more preferably 0.02 to 5 hours, and even more preferably 0.05 to 3 hours.
• the state of the starting material 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is not particularly limited, and the starting material 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid may be fed in a powder state or added in a slurry state.
• the starting material 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is preferably in a slurry state in a dehydrating agent and/or a solvent.
• the dehydrating agent and the solvent are charged into a reaction vessel in advance and heated, and then the starting material 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid is fed in an undivided or divided manner.
• the amount (mol) of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid for each feeding is preferably 0.504 mol/L or less and more preferably 0.336 mol/L or less based on the total amount (L) of the dehydrating agent and the solvent.
• the dehydration rate of the 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid as a starting material is preferably 98.0% or more, more preferably 98.5% or more, even more preferably 99.0% or more, further preferably 99.3% or more, furthermore preferably 99.5% or more, and particularly preferably 99.7% or more.
• the dehydration rate is measured by the method described in the Examples.
• the method further includes the step of recovering cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride (hereinafter also simply referred to as a recovery step).
• the mother liquor from which the crystals have been separated may be recycled. Whether the mother liquor should be returned to the reaction vessel for a dehydration reaction is determined according to the extent of impurity buildup in the system.
• the resulting wet crystals of 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid were charged into a Flash Jet Dryer (manufactured by Seishin Enterprise Co., Ltd.), and dried under conditions having a starting material feeding rate of 55 kg/h, an inlet temperature of 170° C., an outlet temperature of 110° C., a starting material temperature of 12.4° C., a discharge air volume of 6.8 Nm 3 /min, and a discharge pressure of 53 kPa, and thereby white crystals of 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid were obtained.
• a Flash Jet Dryer manufactured by Seishin Enterprise Co., Ltd.
• the average particle size of the resulting white crystals of 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid was 6.9 ⁇ m.
• the resulting white crystals were subjected to an esterification treatment and then a gas chromatography analysis, and thus the purity of 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid was 89.0%.
• the lengths of the major axes of particles on a 100 ⁇ or 1000 ⁇ image taken by FE-SEM manufactured by Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, S-3000N, voltage of 10 kV) were measured using image processing software Image J.
• the major axis lengths of 100 particles were measured, and the average value of the obtained results was regarded as the average particle size of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid.
• Preparation Example 1 cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid having an average particle size of 6.9 ⁇ m obtained in Preparation Example 1 was added such that the reaction time and the number of additions were as shown in Table 2 below. The total amount added was 47.5 g (0.18 mol), and the reaction was continued 120 minutes. After the reaction, the temperature was lowered to room temperature to precipitate crystals, and then the crystals were separated. The resulting crystals were rinsed with 13.1 g of acetic anhydride and then dried to measure the dehydration rate.
• the slurry was prepared by the following method. Specifically, 47.5 g of 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid obtained in Preparation Example 1, 7.8 g of acetic anhydride, and 103.0 g of acetic acid were charged into a recovery flask and stirred at room temperature to form a slurry.
• Example 2 Example 3
• Example 4 Example 1 Number of Two divided Five divided Ten divided Continuous Not divided divided portions portions portions feeding portions Reaction 0 50% 20% 10% Constant rate 100% time 10 10% feeding (min) 20 20% 10% (continuously 30 10% fed for 133 40 20% 10% minutes) 50 10% 60 50% 20% 10% 70 10% 80 20% 10% 90 10% Dehydration 98.30 99.70 99.89 >99.9 96.68 rate (%)
• Dehydration rate (%) 100 ⁇ Amount (% by mass) of cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid in sample Equation 1
• the 1,2,4,5-cyclohexanetetracarboxylic acid as a reaction starting material in the sample is not esterified.
• Liquid chromatography analyzer LC-6AD (solvent delivery unit), CTO-10 A (constant temperature chamber), SCL-10 A (UV), SPD-10AV (UV-VIS detector), SPD-M20 A (PDA detector)
• the eluent conditions were as follows.
• a gradient of solution A:solution B from 50:50 (volume ratio) to 80:20 (volume ratio) was created at an analysis time of 20 to 25 minutes.
• cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride can be stably obtained at a high dehydration rate.
• the cyclohexanetetracarboxylic dianhydride obtained by the present invention has high purity and is thus expected to be used as a starting material of polyimides, epoxy resin curing agents, solder resists, and the like.

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