WO1992002493A1 - Preparation of relatively pure p, p-bisphenol s - Google Patents
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- WO1992002493A1 WO1992002493A1 PCT/US1991/004437 US9104437W WO9202493A1 WO 1992002493 A1 WO1992002493 A1 WO 1992002493A1 US 9104437 W US9104437 W US 9104437W WO 9202493 A1 WO9202493 A1 WO 9202493A1
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- C07C317/00—Sulfones; Sulfoxides
- C07C317/16—Sulfones; Sulfoxides having sulfone or sulfoxide groups and singly-bound oxygen atoms bound to the same carbon skeleton
- C07C317/22—Sulfones; Sulfoxides having sulfone or sulfoxide groups and singly-bound oxygen atoms bound to the same carbon skeleton with sulfone or sulfoxide groups bound to carbon atoms of six-membered aromatic rings of the carbon skeleton
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- This invention relates to the manufacture of p,p-dihydroxydiphenyl sulfone, known also as 4,4'-Bisphenol S (hereafter sometimes "4,4'-BPS”) , and particularly to a method of efficiently and/or continuously separating 4,4'-BPS from a product mixture containing significant quantities of 2,4'-BPS, which is typically produced along with the 4,4'-BPS.
- 4,4'-BPS 4,4'-Bisphenol S
- reaction of sulfuric acid and phenol to make BPS can be conducted quite efficiently by (a) forcing the dehydration reaction to completion (or near completion) by gradually distilling a mixture of water and phenol from the reaction mixture, (b) selectively precipitating 4,4'-BPS from the reaction mixture by adding a solvent such as toluene, (c) removing the 4,4'-BPS from the mixture by a separation step, i.e. filtration or centrifugation, and (d) the unrecovered material from the separation step is recycled to the dehydration reaction step.
- the purity of the product 4,4'-BPS is maintained at a high level by following this process, particularly in the detail described below; the color is excellent.
- Solvents which may be used other than toluene are benzene, chlorobenzene, xylene, o-dichlorobenzene, anisole, cumene, and the like.
- My invention comprises
- step (f) recycling the isolated BPS isomers from step (e) by adding the mixture to reaction step (a) to bring about isomerization of the 2,4'-BPS contained in the filtrate to 4,4'-BPS during the reaction cycle.
- (g) further purifying the crude 4,4'-BPS isolated from separation step (d) above by recrystallizing the compound from water or mixtures of water and solvents such as methanol, ethanol and acetone, preferably methanol.
- the water or water/solvent mixture should contain about 0.0005 to about 0.05 molar equivalents, preferably about 0.002 to 0.01 molar equivalents (based on the amount of BPS being recrystallized) of a reducing agent such as a thiosulfate, sulfite, bisulfite or borohydride salt, preferably sodium bisulfite, to reduce the amount of color in the final product.
- a reducing agent such as a thiosulfate, sulfite, bisulfite or borohydride salt, preferably sodium bisulfite
- a preferred process (best mode) is as follows:
- reaction mixture is then refluxed for an additional 1-1.5 hours, collecting distillate only when the still head temperature falls below 170°C.
- Toluene (a volume equivalent to the volume of phenol used in the reaction) is slowly added to the reaction mixture. This cools the reaction mixture to the boiling point of toluene (110°C) and reduces the solubility of BPS in the solution.
- the reaction mixture temperature reaches about 130 ⁇ C and the solvent is approximately 25-30% toluene, the 4,4'-isomer of BPS begins to precipitate from the solution as a fine pink powder. The remainder of the toluene is added while the precipitation continues.
- step (10) The precipitate from the distillation pot residue in step (9) is filtered from the slurry and is then recycled by adding it to a subsequent reaction batch of BPS between steps (2) and (3), above.
- Toluene (100 ml) was added over a period of 40 minutes while maintaining rapid stirring. After the addition was complete, the mixture was allowed to cool to 60°C. The product was removed from the suspension by vacuum filtration and rinsed with two portions of toluene (50 ml) and then dried to remove the residual toluene to yield 33.41 g of 4,4'-BPS with a purity of 97.5%.
- the crude product was dissolved in boiling methanol (25 ml) and hot water (225 ml) which contained sodium thiosulfate (0.10 g) was added while keeping the mixture boiling.
- the solution was cooled to 25°C and allowed to crystallize over a period of 3 hours at that temperature.
- the product was collected by vacuum filtration and the water removed from the crystals to yield 31.72 g of 4,4'-BPS with a purity >99.5% and an APHA color of ⁇ 20 for a 30% solution in methanol.
- Toluene 150 ml was added to the reaction mixture over a period of one hour and the mixture was allowed to cool to 65°C before the product was filtered from the mixture to produce 44.10 g of light pink material which was purified by the means described in Example 1 to give a final product with the >99.5% purity and APHA color of ⁇ 20 for a 30% methanolic solution.
- Phenol (151.40 g) and sulfuric acid (35.94 g, 96.0%) were reacted in the manner described in Example 1. After the addition of toluene (150 ml) and cooling of the reaction mixture to 70°C, 4,4'-BPS (52.1 g, 97.7%) was separated from the excess phenol and toluene by vacuum filtration.
- the filtrate was distilled under vacuum to remove the toluene and most of the phenol (78 g).
- the toluene was added to the distillation pot residue, causing the precipitation of a mixture of 2,4'-BPS and 4,4'-BPS (28.1 g).
- Phenol (182.2 g) and sulfuric acid (35.2 g) were mixed and heated to 130 ⁇ C for one hour.
- the mixture of BPS isomers from above was added to the mixture which was then heated to reflux (155°C) for one hour.
- the reaction was then carried out as in Example 1 with the mixture of water and phenol distilled off whenever the vapor temperature fell below 160°C.
- Toluene (180 ml) was added to the mixture and the product was collected after the mixture had cooled to 65°C.
- the crude 4,4'-BPS (74.2g) was recrystallized as described in Example 1 to produce a material with purity >99.5% and APHA color of 30 for a 30% methanolic solution.
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US6700020B2 (en) | 2000-04-14 | 2004-03-02 | Basf Aktiengesellschaft | Semi-continuous method for producing 4,4'-dihydroxydiphenyl sulfone |
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US7456321B2 (en) * | 2002-09-25 | 2008-11-25 | Konishi Chemical Ind. Co., Ltd. | Process for producing high-purity 4,4′-dihydroxydiphenyl sulfone |
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