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Definitions

• the present invention relates to an improved process for the separation and recovery of rhodium from the reaction products of oxosynthesis.
• rhodium catalysts have higher activity and selectivity and moreover enable the production plant to operate without complications, in particular with regard to carrying out the synthesis and discharging the products from the reactor.
• the classic oxo process based on cobalt catalysts can in many cases be converted to rhodium catalysts using the existing apparatus parts with only a small investment.
• the old cobalt process is still used according to the classic cobalt process, especially when it is not necessary to convert the process to the rhodium procedure under the given economic conditions.
• the crude oxo product is expanded in several stages by reducing the synthesis gas pressure from about 25 to 30 MPa to initially 1.5 to 2.5 MPa. This releases synthesis gas dissolved in the crude product. Then you can relax to normal pressure.
• the dissolved rhodium compounds must be removed.
• the precious metal is homogeneously dissolved in only a few ppm in the raw product.
• rhodium can change into a metallic form or form multinuclear carbonyl compounds which separate out as solids from the liquid organic phase.
• rhodium is separated off and recovered by extracting it from the crude oxo product with the aid of complexing reagents.
• the crude oxo product is understood to be the reaction mixture of the oxosynthesis that occurs after relaxation and, if appropriate, cooling.
• sulfonated or carboxylated organic phosphines preferably sulfonated arylphosphines
• the sulfonated or carboxylated organic phosphines form water-soluble complex compounds with the rhodium.
• the rhodium can be extracted from the organic crude product with an aqueous solution of the substituted phosphine.
• the rhodium then passes into the aqueous phase, which can be separated from the organic product mixture by simple decanting.
• the rhodium By circulating the solution of the complexing agent, high rhodium concentrations can be achieved in the aqueous phase.
• the process known from EP-A-0147824 is improved by adding a solubilizer to the aqueous solution of the complexing agent. Its effect is in particular that it changes the physical properties of the interface between the two liquid phases and thereby accelerates the transition of the aqueous extractant into the product phase and of the rhodium from the product phase into the aqueous phase.
• the effectiveness of the process described depends on the amount of solubilizer added. Its amount cannot be increased indefinitely because the substances added unnecessarily burden the aqueous solution of the extractant and impair its stability.
• the relaxed crude oxo product is also extracted with an aqueous solution of a complexing agent.
• this process does not work with a solubilizer additive, but sulfonated aryiphosphines with quaternary ammonium ions as counterions, for example the benzyltrimethylammonium cation, are used as water-soluble complexing agents.
• EP-B1-0 111 257 treats a hydroformylation process in which the exhaust gas from a first hydroformylation stage, in which olefin is reacted at low pressure with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of an aqueous rhodium complex compound-containing catalyst solution, in a second stage after classic oxo processes at high pressure and in the presence of cobalt catalysts.
• the organic phase obtained after the changeover to the rhodium procedure therefore contains not only rhodium but also cobalt as the catalytically active metal.
• rhodium is a precious metal, there is therefore a great interest in its separation, recovery and reuse as an active catalyst metal from the catalyst solution containing cobalt for reasons of economy. It is of crucial importance that the rhodium is obtained as completely as possible in a form which permits reuse as a catalyst component. In order to obtain the best possible activity and selectivity of the recovered catalyst, the aim is to separate the cobalt from the rhodium as completely as possible. Furthermore, after the cobalt has been completely removed from the hydroformylation process or from the reaction products of the oxo synthesis, which has hitherto been obtained by exclusive rhodium catalysis, rhodium should also be recovered as completely as possible while simultaneously maintaining the activity and selectivity of the catalyst solution.
• the present invention is therefore based on the object of providing a process with which rhodium can be recovered as largely as possible from an organic catalyst solution in a simple manner.
• the catalyst solution can additionally contain cobalt-containing compounds as impurities.
• the rhodium is obtained in a form which can be used again as a catalyst.
• the rhodium compounds obtained should be suitable for reuse both in a homogeneous hydroformylation process carried out in the organic phase and in the two-phase hydroformylation process known from DE-PS 26 27 354 and carried out in the presence of water.
• This object is achieved by a process for the recovery of rhodium from rhodium complex compounds, optionally cobalt complex compounds and organic solutions optionally containing complex ligands, characterized in that
• the organic phase is treated with an oxidizing agent at a temperature of 0 to 100 ° C .;
• the organic phase is treated with an aqueous solution of a water-soluble arylphosphine at elevated temperature and pressure;
• the rhodium-containing aqueous solution is separated from the organic phase by phase separation.
• the procedure according to the invention is generally suitable for the recovery of rhodium from an organic phase.
• an organic phase is, for example, the crude oxo product, which is the reaction mixture of the hydroformylation reaction which occurs after relaxation and, if appropriate, cooling, or the distillation residue from the crude oxo product in the aldehyde removal.
• the organic phase additionally contains cobalt compounds and / or complex ligands, which is the case when a hydroformylation process previously carried out under cobalt catalysis has been switched to the rhodium procedure.
• the process according to the invention can also be used for rhodium recovery if the amount of cobalt originally present has meanwhile been discharged or the hydroformylation process has been carried out from the outset using rhodium catalysis.
• the organic phase fed to the recovery process also contains its condensation products and alcohols. If necessary, complex ligands are still present, depending on whether the old cobalt process was carried out in the presence of a complex ligand and whether the rhodium process is carried out using complex ligands. However, it is also possible to use the droformylation reaction organic phase before adding complex ligands to stabilize rhodium complexes.
• the ligands customary in hydroformylation processes such as alkylphosphines, alkylarylphosphines or arylphosphines, for example triphenylphosphine, are present as complex ligands.
• the oxides that can be derived from the complex ligands for example triphenylphosphine oxide, can be present as further components dissolved in the organic phase.
• rhodium is present in a concentration of 10 to 10,000 ppm, in particular 100 to 5000, preferably 200 to 1000 ppm by weight, based on the total mass of the solution.
• the cobalt content is generally 10 to 5000 ppm by weight, based on the total mass of the solution.
• the cobalt content decreases due to the continuous discharge from the hydroformylation process.
• the organic phase contains 1 to 20, in particular 1 to 10, preferably 2 to 6% by weight of complex ligands, based on the total mass of the organic phase.
• complex ligands such as phosphine oxides.
• Aldehydes, alcohols, aldols, condensation products and optionally olefin are present as organic constituents if an olefin which contains at least 4 carbon atoms has been used for the hydroformylation reaction.
• Their quantitative relationship to one another depends on whether the crude oxo product or the distillation residue obtained therefrom selects for the work-up process according to the invention.
• the cobalt is first separated off from the organic phase present.
• the organic phase is extracted with an aqueous solution of a phosphate of the general formula (O) P (OR 1 ) (OR 2 ) (OR 3 ).
• R 1 , R 2 and R 3 are the same or different and are hydrogen, a straight-chain or branched alkyl radical having 1-10 carbon atoms, preferably 1-5 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl radical having 6-10 carbon atoms.
• the aryl radical can be substituted by straight-chain or branched alkyl radicals having 1-4 carbon atoms.
• An aqueous phosphoric acid solution or an aqueous solution of trimethyl phosphate is preferably used for the extraction.
• Suitable phosphonic acids are compounds of the general formula R 4 P (O) (OR 5 ) (OR 6 ).
• R 4 , R 5 and R 6 are identical or different and denote hydrogen, a straight-chain or branched alkyl radical having 1-10 carbon atoms, preferably 1-5 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl radical having 6-10 carbon atoms. If the aryl radical is substituted, it carries straight-chain or branched alkyl radicals with 1-4 carbon atoms.
• An aqueous phosphonic acid solution with R 4 equal to methyl, ethyl, propyl or butyl or an aqueous solution of methyldimethylphosphonate is preferably used for the extraction.
• the concentration of the extractant in the aqueous solution is variable over a wide range.
• aqueous solutions are used in which the concentration of the phosphorus-containing extractant is 1 to 95, preferably 30 to 60,% by weight, based on the aqueous extraction solution.
• the process is carried out at a temperature of 0 to 100 ° C., preferably 20 to 40 ° C.
• the volume ratio of organic phase to aqueous extraction phase is from 20 to 80 to 80 to 20, preferably from 40 to 60 to 60 to 40.
• the extraction is generally carried out over a period of 0.5 to 5 hours, preferably 1 to 3 hours.
• the extraction step is generally repeated several times, generally the organic phase is extracted 2 to 4 times in succession.
• the treated organic phase is mixed with water at a temperature of 0 to 100 ° C., preferably 20 to 40 ° C.
• the amount of water is generally about 25 to 50% of the volume of the organic phase present.
• the water washing is carried out at a pH in a range from 0-8, preferably 4-8.
• an aqueous solution of an alkaline substance with a concentration of 3 to 20% by weight is generally added to the wash water.
• Aqueous solutions of alkali metal or alkaline earth metal hydroxides or carbonates are preferably used -hydrogen carbonates, especially sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide.
• Suitable solvents are aliphatic hydrocarbons with 6 to 12 carbon atoms, aromatic hydrocarbons with 6 to 12 carbon atoms, aldehydes or their condensation products. It is particularly advisable to add the aldehyde, which is the target product of oxo synthesis.
• the amount of organic solvent added corresponds to the amount of the organic phase treated.
• the organic phase present after extraction and water washing is then subjected to an oxidative treatment.
• the oxidation of the organic phase is carried out at temperatures from 0 to 100 ° C., in particular 30 to 60 ° C. and preferably 50 to 60 ° C. Since the organic phase contains aldehydes that originate from oxosynthesis or that were added to support phase separation during water washing, carboxylic acids are formed during the oxidation. The formation of carboxylic acids and other oxidation products from the organic components is exothermic. In order to avoid an uncontrolled oxidation reaction, the oxidation reactor may need to be cooled.
• oxygen or oxygen-containing gas mixtures are used as the oxidizing agent.
• oxidizing agents such as hydrogen peroxide, compounds forming hydrogen peroxide, hypochlorite, chromates or permanganates.
• the oxidation can be carried out both under normal pressure and at elevated pressure. Suitable pressures are 0.1 to 2.0, in particular 0.2 to 1 and preferably 0.3 to 0.7 MPa.
• the oxidation time is generally from 0.5 to 24 hours. The exact duration of the oxidation depends on the content of the complex ligand in the organic phase and can be determined by simple preliminary tests. The course of the oxidation reaction is checked by checking the content of complex ligands by gas chromatography. As soon as the complex has completely reacted to the corresponding oxide, the oxidation reaction is ended.
• the organic phase is placed in a suitable reactor, e.g. in a stirred reactor provided with an inlet port and frit attachment or in a tubular reactor provided with an inflow base, which may also contain packing elements, and conducts the oxygen or oxygen-containing gas mixture from below through the organic phase.
• a suitable reactor e.g. in a stirred reactor provided with an inlet port and frit attachment or in a tubular reactor provided with an inflow base, which may also contain packing elements, and conducts the oxygen or oxygen-containing gas mixture from below through the organic phase.
• the organic phase obtained after the oxidative treatment is then extracted with an aqueous solution of a water-soluble complex ligand.
• the water-soluble complex ligands are generally phosphines of the general formula
• Ar 1 , Ar 2 , Ar 3 each represent a phenyl or naphthyl group
• Y 1 , Y 2 , Y 3 each represent a straight-chain or branched alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom, an OH , CN, NO 2 - or R 7 R 8 N group, in which R 7 and R 8 are each a straight-chain or branched alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms
• X 1 , X 2 , X 3 each represents a carboxylate - (COO " ) and / or sulfonate (SO 3 " ) radical
• n 1 t n 2 , n 3 are the same or different numbers from 0 to 5
• M represents an alkali metal ion, the equivalent of an alkaline earth metal or zinc ion or Ammonium or quaternary alkylammonium ion of the general formula N (R 9
• the aqueous solution contains 1 to 40, in particular 10 to 20, preferably 10 to 15% by weight of water-soluble complex ligands, based on the aqueous solution.
• the aqueous solution containing the complex ligand is used in such an amount that the molar ratio of rhodium to phosphorus III is from 1: 1 to 1: 200, preferably from 1:10 to 1:20.
• the concentration of water-soluble ligand in the aqueous solution is selected taking into account the molar ratio of rhodium to phosphorus III to be set and against the background that organic and aqueous phases should be present in a quantitative ratio suitable for phase separation.
• the volume ratio of organic to aqueous phase is from 30 to 70 to 70 to 30.
• the extraction of the rhodium from the organic into the aqueous phase is carried out under increased pressure and temperature.
• pressures from 1 to 20 MPa, preferably from 1 to 10 MPa, in particular from 2.5 to 5 MPa and at temperatures from 20 to 200 ° C., preferably 50 to 150 ° C., in particular 120 to 140 ° C., are used .
• the extraction either under autogenous pressure, while injecting an inert gas, such as. B. nitrogen or a rare gas or under synthesis gas pressure.
• the extraction time is generally 0.5 to 5 hours.
• the composition of the synthesis gas i.e. the ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide
• the molar ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide is 1:10 to 10: 1.
• Mixtures containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide in a molar ratio of 1: 1 are particularly suitable.
• aqueous rhodium-containing solution obtained by the process according to the invention to further oxidation after addition of a water-soluble salt of a carboxylic acid with 7 to 22 carbon atoms in excess, based on rhodium, a process which, e.g. is known from EP-B1 -0 255 673 and EP-B1-0 367 957.
• Rhodium can be obtained from this aqueous solution as a poorly or insoluble compound in water, e.g. deposit in the form of rhodium-2-ethylhexanonate, and use in a hydroformylation process carried out in a single phase in the organic phase.
• Such a hydroformylation process is e.g. known from EP-B1-0 188 246.
• suitable oxidizing agents are preferably oxygen or oxygen-containing gas mixtures, such as air.
• suitable oxidizing agents such as hydrogen peroxide, compounds forming hydrogen peroxide, hypochlorite, chromates or permanganates.
• the oxidative treatment leads to a disintegration of the rhodium complex containing the water-soluble ligand through the formation of phosphorus (V) oxide compounds which are no longer complex from the water-soluble phosphines used in the extraction step.
• V phosphorus
• the oxidation is carried out at a temperature of 50 to 200 ° C. under normal pressure or at an elevated pressure of 0.1 to 2.0 MPa for a period of 0.5 to 24 hours.
• the aqueous solution is removed with an organic phosphine or diphosphine. holding organic solvent extracted.
• the organic solvent used is aliphatic hydrocarbons with 6 to 12 carbon atoms, aromatic hydrocarbons with 6 to 12 carbon atoms, preferably benzene, toluene or the isomeric xylenes, ethers such as, for example, diethyl ether, dibutyl ether, or alcohols such as butanol, the isomeric pentanols, ethylene glycol or diethylene glycol.
• phosphines or diphosphines are triphenylphosphine, tributylphosphine, tripropylphosphine, triethylphosphine, trioctylphosphine, diethylphenylphosphine, diphenylethylphosphine, diphenyl- (dimethylamino) phenylphosphine, methylcyclohexyianisylphosphine, diphenylphosphine, 2,2'-bis (2,2'-bis) (2,2'-bis) -biphenyl, 1, 2-bis (diphenylphosphino) ethane or 2,2'-bis ((diphenylphosphino) methyl) - 1, 1 '-binaphthyl can be used.
• the extraction of the rhodium from the aqueous into the organic phase is carried out under increased pressure and temperature.
• pressures from 1 MPa to 20 MPa, preferably from 1 MPa to 10 MPa, in particular from 2.5 MPa to 5 MPa and at temperatures from 20 ° C. to 200 ° C., preferably 50 ° C. to 150 ° C. , in particular 120 ° C to 140 ° C worked.
• the extraction either under autogenous pressure, while injecting an inert gas, such as. B. nitrogen or a rare gas or under synthesis gas pressure.
• the extraction time is generally 0.5 to 5 hours.
• the composition of the synthesis gas i.e. the ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide
• the ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide can vary within wide limits vary. In general, the molar ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide is 1:10 to 10: 1. Mixtures containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide in a molar ratio of 1: 1 are particularly suitable.
• the organic solution containing the complex ligand is used in such amounts that the molar ratio of rhodium to phosphorus III is from 1: 1 to 1: 200, preferably from 1:10 to 1:20.
• concentration of ligands in the organic solution is selected taking into account the molar ratio of rhodium to phosphorus III to be set and against the background that organic and aqueous phases should be present in a quantitative ratio suitable for phase separation.
• the volume ratio of organic to aqueous phase is from 30 to 70 to 70 to 30.
• the rhodium-containing organic solution obtained by this procedure can be used as a catalyst solution in the homogeneously carried out hydroformylation process, as described e.g. is known from EP-B1-0 188 246.
• the process according to the invention can be used with great success for the removal and recovery of rhodium from the products of the hydroformylation of terminal and internal olefins with more than 3 carbon atoms.
• the process according to the invention is particularly suitable for separating rhodium from the reaction products which are involved in the hydroformylation of i-heptene, diisobutylene, tri- and tetrapropylene or from C8-olefins commercially available under the name Dimersol ,
• the work-up process according to the invention can be used with particular success in products from the hydroformylation of propylene, n-butene, n-pentene and n-hexene, the absolute rhodium concentrations generally being lower.
• the process according to the invention can be used with great success if hydroformyation steps previously carried out under cobalt catalysis are converted to the rhodium mode, a process known from EP-0 805 138, which is a further development of the process known from EP-0 111 257.
• the process according to the invention allows more than 95% of the rhodium originally present to be recovered.
• the cobaite content in the concentrated rhodium solution obtained is less than 1%, based on the sum of the metals rhodium and cobalt.
• the process according to the invention is not limited to the working up of solutions which, in addition to rhodium, also contain cobalt compounds as impurities. It can also be applied to catalyst solutions that originate from a process carried out using rhodium catalysis only.
• Example 1 Working up a used solution containing rhodium / triphenylphosphine
• n-butyraldehyde 55% by weight of n-butyraldehyde, 2% by weight of triphenylphosphine oxide, 6.3% by weight of triphenylphosphine, 36.2% by weight of high boilers (generally aldol condensation products from butyraldehyde) and 0.5% by weight
• high boilers generally aldol condensation products from butyraldehyde
• Low boilers generally hydrocarbons with 3 to 7 carbon atoms
• 699 mg rhodium (6.79 mmol) and 234 mg cobalt (3.97 mmol) are mixed in a 4 I three-necked flask for dilution with 1000 g fresh n-butyraldehyde and then 2 times with 100 g of 65% phosphoric acid Extracted at 22 ° C for 30 minutes.
• TPTS trisodium tri (m-sulfophenyl) phosphine
• the reaction mixture is then transferred to a 4 l three-necked flask with a lower outlet and the lower aqueous phase (144.2 g) is separated from the upper organic phase (1979 g).
• the aqueous TPPTS solution contained 687.7 mg of rhodium, corresponding to 98.4% of the amount of rhodium originally contained in the starting solution.
• the cobalt content in the aqueous TPPTS solution was below the analytical detection limit.
• the rhodium content is 260 ppm.
• the solution is placed in a 0.21 stainless steel autoclave.
• propylene and a CO / H 2 mixture consisting of equal parts by volume are fed in such an amount that 10 Nl / h of exhaust gas can be removed from the reactor [Nl / h mean 1 liter of exhaust gas in normal condition (20 ° C and 1 at) per hour].
• 300 ml of aqueous catalyst solution are circulated through the reactor per hour.
• the hydroformylation is carried out semi-continuously over 8 hours. guided.
• the other reaction parameters and the results of the hydroformylation can be found in Table 1.
• Table 1 A comparison of Tables 1 and 2 shows that the work-up process according to the invention provides a catalyst solution (Table 1) which has almost the same activity, productivity and turnover numbers as a freshly prepared catalyst solution using a fresh amount of rhodium (Table 2).

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