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Manufacture of halogenated compounds

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CA1117145A
CA1117145A CA000311550A CA311550A CA1117145A CA 1117145 A CA1117145 A CA 1117145A CA 000311550 A CA000311550 A CA 000311550A CA 311550 A CA311550 A CA 311550A CA 1117145 A CA1117145 A CA 1117145A
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trifluoroethylene
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Stephen E. Potter
John I. Darragh
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Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd
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    • C07ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    • C07CACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
    • C07C17/00Preparation of halogenated hydrocarbons
    • C07C17/07Preparation of halogenated hydrocarbons by addition of hydrogen halides
    • C07C17/087Preparation of halogenated hydrocarbons by addition of hydrogen halides to unsaturated halogenated hydrocarbons

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Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane is manufactured by bringing trifluoroethylene into reaction with hydrogen fluoride in the vapour phase at elevated temperature in the presence of a chromium oxide or basic chromium fluoride hydrofluorination catalyst.

Description

1. MD 29795 This invention relates to a process for the manufacture of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane.
According to the present invention there is provided a process for the manufacture of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane which comprises bringing intoreaction in the vapour phase at eleva~ed temperature trifluoroethylene with hydrogen fluoride in the presence of a hydrofluorination catalyst.
The catalyst may be supported or unsupported.
One very suitable catalyst is chromium oxide. The chromium o~ide catalyst may be activated by heating in an atmosphere such as nitrogen or air. Again the catalyst may comprise a basic chromium fluoride in which chromium is associated with oxygen and fluorine atoms. A particularly preferred catalyst is a chromium;oxide obtained by treating a chromium hydroxide paste with steam and calcined, suitably in air,as is more~ fully described and claimed in our UK Patent Specification 1 307 224. The catalyst of said UK Patent Specification may be given a pre-fluorination treatment~by passing hydrogen fluoride over the catalyst at 250C to 450C for at least 30 minutes~ The catalysts may be compressed into~
pellets and used in a fixed bed. Alternatively the catalyst of appropriate particle size may be used ~: .
i ' 11~7~l~5
2. MD 2g795 in a fluidised bed. In use the chromium oxide catalyst takes up variable amounts of fluorine and can be present in the form Oe complex mixtures of oxides oxyfluorides, hydroxy fluorides and fluorides of chromium.
Suitably 1 to 2 moles of hydrogen ~luoride is employed per mole of trifluoroethylene. Greater molar ratios of hydrogen fluoride to trifluoro-ethylene can be employed but too great a molar ratio is undesired as this makes the process less economic. It is preferred to employ a molar ratio of hydrogen fluoride to tri1uoroethylene in the range 1.4:1 to 1.8:1, for example 1.6:1.
Reaction temperatures are suitably in the range 200C to 500C, preferably 300C to 410C.
Contact times are in the range 1 to 15 seconds.
Atmospheric or superatmospheric pressures may be employed.
In the present process particularly when operating under preferred process conditions very high conversions of trifluoroethylene to hydrofluorinated product and highly selective yields to 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane are obtained. Conversions of up to 100% of fluorinated organic compounds with yields of greater than 9S% to 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane can in fact be obtained in the present procesq.
The desired 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane can be recovered using conventional techniques, for example, by washing the exit gases with water and aqueous sodium hydro;xide solution, drying and collecting the desired product by condensation.
3. MD 29795 The trifluoroethylene starting material can be obtained by various methods. Thus it may b0 obtained by the reaction of hydrogen with trifluoro-chloroethylene in the vapour phase in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst such as platinum or palladium. Another useful method is provided by bringing hydrogen into reaction with 1,1,2-trichloro 1,2,2-trifluoroethane in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst such as palladium.
The ollowing Examples illustrate the invention.

Into a tubular nickel reactor 90 cms long and 2.5 cms internal diameter were placed 170 grams of a chromium oxide catalyst. The latter had been prepared by steam treatment of a chromium hydroxide paste at 95C for 18 hours and subsequently was calcined at 340C for 11 hours as described in our UK Patent Specification No 1307224. The catalyst was then pretreated with hydrogen fluoride at 350C for
4 hours. The tubular reactor was heated by an electric furnace.
~ Iydrogen fluoride and trifluoroethylene in two different molar ratios were passed through the tube, the catalyst bed being maintained at 350C. The flow rates of organic material and hydrogen fluoride were 185 cc/min and 130 cc/min, respectively, for Run 1, 370 cc/min and 260 cc/min, respectively for Run 2, 440 cc/min and 286 cc/min, respectively, through half the catalytic bed length for Run 3.
The % v/v of organic materials in the exit gas was determined by gas/liquid chromatography.
The reaction conditions and composition of the product were as shown in Table I.

111',,'~.~5 4. MD 29795 TABLE I

Product Contact time ~ secs ) 14 L7 ~3 .

Molar Ratio of HF: CF2=CFH

1.43:1 1.43:1 l.5~:~
...

CF3CH2F 97 . 8 97 . 5 97 . 5 :~ , _ .
CF4 1.0 0. 2 0.04 ~,: . ~ . ._ C2F6 _ _ 0 . 04 ~ .

2H2 0. 2 0. 3 0.04 ~ ., __ .. __ C2F5H ~ 1 . 0 1 . 1 1 . 5 20 _ '~ U2 _ _ I o,j I ~.8 :' ~ .
:: .
5. MD 29795 The apparatus and procedure were broadly similar to those of Example l. However the internal diameter of the reactor was larger (.3.8 cms) and the reactor was 5 constructed of 'Monel' ('Monel' is a Trade Mark).
The amount of catalyst was 1 kg. The flow rates of hydrogen fluoride and trifluoroethylene were 200 g hr l and 125 1 hr l (gas) tri1uoroethylene, respectively.
The molar ratio o~ HF:CF2=CFH was 1.9:1. The contact time was 4 seconds.
The exit gas was washed with water and aqueous - alkaline hydroxide solution, passed through a catchpot to collect water droplets, dried; the product was collected by condensation and was distilled.
The conversion to CF3CH2F was > 95%. The product contained only 0.5% of fluorinated methanes and fluorinated ethane.

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Claims (7)

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:
1. A process for the manufacture of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane which comprises bringing trifluoro-ethylene into reaction with hydrogen fluoride in the vapour phase at elevated temperature in the presence of a chromium oxide or basic chromium fluoride hydro-fluorination catalyst.
2. A process as claimed in Claim 1 in which the hydrofluorination catalyst is chromium oxide.
3. A process as claimed in Claim 2 in which the chromium oxide catalyst is one obtained by treating a chromium hydroxide paste in an atmosphere comprising from 10 to 100 percent by weight of steam at a temperature in the range from 50°C to 180°C for at least one hour and then calcining the product.
4. A process as claimed in Claim 1, 2 or 3 in which there is employed 1 to 2 moles hydrogen fluoride per mole of trifluoroethylene.
5. A process as claimed in Claim 1, 2 or 3 in which there is employed 1.4 moles to 1,8 moles hydrogen fluoride per mole of trifluoroethylene.
6. A process as claimed in Claim 1, 2 or 3 in which the reaction temperature is in the range 200°C
to 500°C.
7. A process as claimed in Claim 1, 2 or 3 in which the reaction temperature is in the range 300°C to 410°C.
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