Synthesis of paraphenylene diamine novel process for the preparation of formamide
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the field of chemical synthesis, and particularly relates to a method for synthesizing terephthalamide.
Technical Field
Terephthalamide is an important chemical intermediate and has wide application in the fields of synthetic materials, medicines, pesticides, fine organic synthesis and the like.
Terephthalic acid is mainly used as a raw material in industry, terephthaloyl chloride is prepared through an acyl chlorination reaction, and then terephthalamide is obtained through a reaction with ammonia gas (CN 1422843A; journalof theAmericanChemicalSociety,2013,16853.). Common acyl chloride reagents are thionyl chloride, phosphorus trichloride, phosphorus pentachloride, phosgene, etc. The reaction condition of the route is mild, the operation is simple, the product yield is higher, but a large amount of chlorine-containing byproducts are generated, the wastewater discharge amount is large, and the production cost is higher.
It has been reported that terephthalonitrile was hydrolyzed at 80℃for 6 hours under the catalysis of iridium complexes to give 93% terephthalamide (InorganicChemistry, 2020,59 (22): 16582.). The method has clean process and mild condition, but has limited sources of terephthalonitrile, and has higher cost by using a noble metal catalyst. Joshi et al (Green chemistry,2019,21:962) reported that terephthalamide was obtained by oxidation of p-dibenzylamine as a starting material with tetrabutylammonium hydroxide as a catalyst at 70℃for 12 hours with oxygen. The method has mild conditions and clean process, but the prices of the dibenzylamine and the catalyst are higher, and the cost is higher. In general, these methods have mild reaction conditions, but the raw materials are too costly to be suitable for industrial production.
The ammonolysis of terephthalamide is a more cost-effective process. Chinese patent CN113773220 reports that 85% terephthalamide could be obtained by reacting terephthalate with ammonia gas in methanol medium under 80 ℃ pressure for 24 hours. There are also documents (Shan Yuhua, petrochemical industry, 2004,33 (1): 51-3; wo2012123328; wo2012014760; chemistry-AnAsianJ,2015, 2631-2650) which report a synthetic method for synthesizing terephthalamide by using terephthalate under the action of a catalyst and ammonia or ammonia water in a solvent at high temperature and high pressure. The method has harsh reaction conditions, complex process and high equipment requirement, and the production cost is high.
In order to reduce the production cost and reduce the emission of three wastes, chinese patent CN105016939 discloses a method, which is to add a proper amount of terephthalic acid into a reaction kettle, charge ammonia gas with the mole number of 2.6 times of terephthalic acid or add ammonium bicarbonate powder with the mole number of 2.8 times of terephthalic acid, seal the reaction kettle, and make the reaction at 305-320 ℃ for 0.5h under the stirring condition to obtain terephthalamide. The method adopts cheap raw materials and solvent-free (dry) high-temperature reaction, can effectively reduce the emission of three wastes, but has the defects of high reaction temperature (sublimation at the temperature of more than 300 ℃ of terephthalic acid), high-temperature solid-phase operation difficulty, high equipment requirement and the like.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to provide a novel terephthalamide production technology, which is used for producing terephthalamide and low-melting-point amide through co-dissolution amidation so as to reduce pollutant emission, reduce production cost and improve the yield and purity of terephthalamide.
In order to achieve the above purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:
1. terephthalic acid and low-melting-point acid are compounded, ammonia gas is introduced to react under certain reaction temperature and pressure in the presence of a catalyst, so that both terephthalic acid and the low-melting-point acid are amidated.
2. The proper temperature is controlled and the mixture is filtered when the mixture is hot. The filter cake (solid) is terephthalamide, and the filtrate is low-melting-point acid to generate corresponding amide. Washing the filter cake with a proper solvent while the filter cake is hot, and vacuum drying to obtain the high-purity terephthalamide.
3. And (3) cooling, crystallizing, filtering and vacuum drying the combined filtrate (the amide filtrate generated by the low-melting-point acid is combined with the washing liquid generated by the hot washing of the filter cake) to obtain the amide generated by the low-melting-point acid.
Further, the low melting point acid means an acid having a melting point lower than that of terephthalic acid. If the melting point of terephthalic acid is 427 ℃, then the low melting point acid selected is an acid having a melting point less than 427 ℃. Meanwhile, the acid strength of the low-melting-point acid is required to be smaller than that of terephthalic acid, so that the refractory terephthalic acid can be subjected to amidation reaction preferentially to generate a target product. The acid strength constant PKa of terephthalic acid is 3.5, and it is required that the acid strength constant PKa of the low-melting acid is greater than 3.5 (the greater the PKa value, the smaller the corresponding acid strength). Suitable low-melting acids are, for example, isooctanoic acid (melting point-59 ℃ C., PKa 4.8), oleic acid (melting point 14 ℃ C., PKa 4.8), glutaric acid (melting point 98 ℃ C., PKa 4.4), adipic acid (melting point 152 ℃ C., PKa 4.5) etc.
Further, the compounding ratio of terephthalic acid and low-melting-point acid is 1.5-1.5 (weight ratio);
Further, the catalyst is a proton acid and a lewis acid that catalyze an amidation reaction of an acid. Suitable are sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid (phosphotungstic acid), zinc compounds (zinc oxide, zinc acetate), tin compounds (stannous oxide, butylstannic acid) and the like. The dosage of the catalyst is 0.05-0.5% of the total weight of terephthalic acid and low-melting point acid;
Further, the amidation reaction temperature is 250-300 ℃. The amidation reaction pressure is maintained by introducing ammonia gas, and is generally 0.3-0.7 MPa;
further, the proper time for the reaction by introducing ammonia gas means the time required for amidation of terephthalic acid and a so-called low melting point acid, and is usually 6 to 12 hours.
Further, the filtration is carried out while hot by controlling a proper temperature, wherein the hot filtration temperature depends on the melting point of the corresponding amide generated by the low-melting acid, and the proper hot filtration temperature is 20-50 ℃ higher than the melting point of the corresponding amide generated by the low-melting acid, so as to ensure the separation from the terephthalamide in a filtration mode. Specifically, when the melting point of the isooctanoic acid amide is 102 ℃, the proper heat filtration temperature is 122-172 ℃. The oleic amide melting point is 77 ℃, and the suitable heat filtration temperature is 97-127 ℃. The glutaramide melting point is 98 ℃, and a suitable heat filtration temperature is 118-148 ℃. The melting point of adipoylamine is 220 ℃, and the suitable heat filtration temperature is 240-270 ℃.
Further, a proper solvent is selected to wash the filter cake while the filter cake is hot, and the high-purity terephthalamide is obtained. Suitable solvents are those which dissolve the corresponding amides of the low-melting acids, but not the terephthalamides. These solvents are dimethyl sulfoxide, dimethylformamide, dimethylacetamide, N-methylpyrrolidone, butyronitrile and the like.
Further, a proper solvent is selected to wash the filter cake while the filter cake is hot, wherein the washing of the filter cake while the filter cake is hot means that the filter cake is washed at 100-160 ℃. The filter cake is washed by maintaining the temperature range, so that the solvent can well dissolve amide generated by low-melting-point acid, but not terephthalamide, thereby obtaining terephthalamide with high purity and high yield.
And further, cooling and crystallizing the combined filtrate, wherein the crystallization temperature is 30-80 ℃ and the crystallization time is 6-12 hours. The low melting point acid produces a low melting point amide having a melting point lower than the melting point of terephthalamide.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. The invention uses low-melting point acid and the corresponding low-melting point amide as reaction medium to promote amidation reaction. During the high temperature copolyamidation reaction, the low melting acid melts to act as a reaction medium, amidating both terephthalic acid and the so-called low melting acid. The low-melting acid amide produced also serves as a flowing medium for solid particles of terephthalamide under high-temperature conditions, so that the material is easy to transport. No water, or alcohol, or other solvent is required to act as a reaction medium. The reaction (such as CN 105016939) is avoided under the high-temperature solid phase, and the high-temperature solid phase has two defects of difficult and uniform reaction and difficult solid phase material transportation during large-scale production.
2. The invention has no addition of traditional solvent or medium to the reaction system and no three wastes discharge. The technology of the invention is clean, efficient and low in cost. The material, which is the solvent or medium, is finally also converted into the product. The technology provides a new operation mode for the solid-phase material system reaction.
3. The addition of low melting point weak acid is beneficial to generating higher ammonia concentration in the reaction liquid phase and promoting the rapid amidation of terephthalic acid.
4. The technology of the invention uses acid with lower acid strength and much lower melting point as a medium, so that the target product terephthalic acid can be preferably and completely converted into terephthalamide. The low melting point amide produced has a melting point well below that of terephthalamide (greater than 500 ℃), which in turn makes it easy to isolate terephthalamide by hot filtration.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a co-solvent amidation process for producing terephthalamide and low melting amides.
Detailed description of the preferred embodiments
The invention is further described below in connection with examples, but is not limited thereto.
Example 1 iso-octanoic acid as Low melting Co-amidated acid
1. 166G of terephthalic acid (mass content: 99.8%) and 83g of isooctanoic acid (mass content: 99.5%) and 0.1245g of concentrated sulfuric acid were charged into a high-pressure reaction vessel, and the air in the vessel was replaced with ammonia gas. Heating to 250 ℃, introducing ammonia gas, maintaining the ammonia gas pressure of 0.3MPa for reaction for 10 hours, amidating both terephthalic acid and isooctanoic acid (using liquid chromatography for tracking analysis), stopping introducing the ammonia gas, and ending the reaction.
2. After the reaction, the temperature of the material is reduced to 172 ℃, and the material is filtered while the material is hot. The filter cake (solid) is terephthalamide, and the filtrate is isooctanoic acid amide. The filter cake was washed with butyronitrile at 100℃and dried in vacuo at 150℃to give 160.7g of terephthalamide, 99.2% purity and 97.4% yield. The isooctanoic acid amide adhering to the filter cake is washed out by the hot butyronitrile and enters the filtrate.
3. The combined filtrate (172 ℃ filtrate isooctanoic acid amide and washing solution generated by hot washing of filter cakes) is cooled to 50 ℃ for crystallization for 12 hours, then is filtered, and is dried in vacuum at 70 ℃ to obtain 79.7g of solid isooctanoic acid amide, wherein the melting point is 100-102 ℃, the purity is 98.8%, and the yield is 96.0%.
EXAMPLE 2 oleic acid as Low melting Co-amidated acid
1. 166G of terephthalic acid (the mass content is more than 99.8%) and 166g of oleic acid (the mass content is 98.0%) are added into a high-pressure reaction kettle, and 0.332g of phosphotungstic acid are added into the high-pressure reaction kettle to replace air in the kettle by ammonia gas. Heating to 260 ℃, introducing ammonia gas, maintaining the ammonia gas pressure of 0.5MPa for reaction for 6 hours, amidating both terephthalic acid and oleic acid (using liquid chromatography for tracking analysis), stopping introducing the ammonia gas, and ending the reaction.
2. After the reaction, the temperature of the material was reduced to 117℃and filtered while hot. The filter cake (solid) is terephthalamide and the filtrate is oleamide. The filter cake was washed with N-dimethylformamide at 120℃and dried under vacuum at 150℃to give 161.6g of terephthalamide with a purity of 99.5% and a yield of 98.2%. The oleamide adhering to the filter cake is washed out by hot N-dimethylformamide and enters the filtrate.
3. The combined filtrate (filtrate oleamide at 117 ℃ and washing liquid generated by hot washing of filter cakes) is cooled to 30 ℃ for crystallization for 10 hours and then filtered, and the filtrate is dried in vacuum at 70 ℃ to obtain 157.9g of solid oleamide with the melting point of 75-76 ℃ and the purity of 98.1 percent and the yield of 95.6 percent.
EXAMPLE 3 glutaric acid as Low melting Co-amidated acid
1. 166G of terephthalic acid (mass content more than 99.8%) and 207.5g of glutaric acid (mass content more than 98.0%) and 1.121g of stannous oxide were added to the autoclave, and the air in the autoclave was replaced with ammonia gas. Heating to 280 ℃, introducing ammonia gas, maintaining the ammonia gas pressure of 0.6MPa for reaction for 12 hours, amidating both terephthalic acid and glutaric acid (using liquid chromatography for tracking analysis), stopping introducing the ammonia gas, and ending the reaction.
2. After the reaction, the temperature of the material was reduced to 128℃and filtered while hot. The filter cake (solid) is terephthalamide and the filtrate is glutaramide. The filter cake was washed with dimethyl sulfoxide at 140℃while hot and dried under vacuum at 150℃to give 159.8g of terephthalamide with a purity of 99.6% and a yield of 97.6%. The glutaramide adhering to the filter cake is washed out by hot dimethyl sulfoxide and enters the filtrate.
3. The combined filtrate (the filtrate glutaramide at 128 ℃ and the washing solution generated by hot washing of the filter cake) is cooled to 60 ℃ for crystallization for 8 hours, then is filtered, and is dried at 70 ℃ in vacuum to obtain 199.8g of solid glutaramide, the melting point is 96-97 ℃, the purity is 97.9%, and the yield is 97.7%.
EXAMPLE 4 adipic acid as Low melting Co-amidated acid
1. 166G of terephthalic acid (mass content more than 99.8%) and 249g of adipic acid (mass content more than 99.0%) and 2.075g of zinc acetate are added into a high-pressure reaction kettle, and the air in the kettle is replaced by ammonia gas. Heating to 300 ℃, introducing ammonia gas, maintaining the ammonia gas pressure of 0.7MPa for reaction for 8 hours, amidating both terephthalic acid and adipic acid (using liquid chromatography for tracking analysis), stopping introducing the ammonia gas, and ending the reaction.
2. After the reaction, the temperature of the material was reduced to 240℃and filtered while hot. The filter cake (solid) was terephthalamide and the filtrate was adipoylamine. The filter cake was washed with N-methylpyrrolidone at 160℃and dried in vacuo at 150℃to give 158.8g of terephthalamide with a purity of 99.8% and a yield of 97.0%. The adipoylamine adhering to the filter cake is washed out by hot N-methylpyrrolidone and enters the filtrate.
3. The combined filtrate (240 ℃ C. Filtrate adipoylamine and washing solution generated by hot washing of the filter cake) is cooled to 80 ℃ C. And crystallized for 6 hours, and then filtered, and vacuum-dried at 70 ℃ C. To obtain 237.7g of solid adipoylamine with the melting point of 216-218 ℃ C. And the purity of 98.2% and the yield of 96.0%.
Comparative example 1:1, 3-malonic acid as Low melting Co-amidated acid
1. 166G of terephthalic acid (content greater than 99.8%) and 83g of malonic acid (content greater than 98.5%, melting point 152 ℃, pka=2.9) were added to the autoclave, 0.1245g of concentrated sulfuric acid was added, and the air in the autoclave was replaced with ammonia. Raising the temperature to 250 ℃, introducing ammonia, maintaining the ammonia pressure of 0.3MPa for reaction for 5 hours, and fully amidating the malonic acid, wherein 39.8% of terephthalic acid is still not amidated (analyzed by liquid chromatography tracking), and continuing the reaction for 14 hours, so that the terephthalic acid is completely converted. Stopping introducing ammonia gas, and ending the reaction. The reaction was carried out for 19 hours.
2. After the reaction, the temperature of the material is reduced to 220 ℃ and the material is filtered while the material is hot. The filter cake (solid) was terephthalamide and the filtrate was malonamide (melting point 170 ℃). The filter cake was washed with N-methylpyrrolidone at 160℃while hot and dried under vacuum at 150℃to give 156.4g of terephthalamide with a purity of 97.3% and a yield of 93.0%. The malonamide adhering to the filter cake is washed out by hot N-methylpyrrolidone into the filtrate.
3. The combined filtrate (filtrate malononimide at 220 ℃ and washing liquid generated by hot washing of filter cakes) is cooled to 30 ℃ for crystallization for 12 hours, then is filtered, and is dried at 70 ℃ in vacuum to obtain 77.7g of solid malononimide with the melting point of 167-169 ℃, the purity of 99.4% and the yield of 96.3%.
As is apparent from comparative example 1, the use of a low melting point acid eutectic amidation reaction having an acid strength relatively higher than that of terephthalic acid brings about the disadvantage that 1. The amidation reaction of terephthalic acid is significantly slowed down. Because malonic acid, which has higher acid strength than terephthalic acid, is preferentially converted to an amide, the environment of the amidation reaction medium of terephthalic acid is changed. In example 1, terephthalic acid is preferentially reacted, the reaction medium is mainly isooctanoic acid, and ammonia which is easy to complex with alkali enters a liquid phase (namely, the ammonia concentration of the liquid phase is higher) and reacts with solid-phase strong acid terephthalic acid, so that terephthalic acid is completely amidated in a short time. 2. The amide product of terephthalic acid is of low purity. Since terephthalic acid is basically amidated in a malonamide medium in the latter stage of the reaction, ammonia is low in liquid phase concentration, so that the intermediate product is not easy to be completely converted into terephthalamide, and the yield and purity of the terephthalamide product are low.
Comparative example 2 method of adding solvent (without adding Low melting Point acid)
166G of terephthalic acid (mass content: 99.8%) and 83g of N, N-dimethylformamide and 0.1245g of concentrated sulfuric acid were charged into a high-pressure reaction vessel, and the air in the vessel was replaced with ammonia gas. Heating to 250 ℃, introducing ammonia gas, maintaining the ammonia gas pressure at 0.3MPa for reaction for 22 hours, and then completely converting terephthalic acid (using liquid chromatography for tracking analysis), stopping introducing the ammonia gas, and ending the reaction. After the reaction, the material was filtered hot at 172 ℃.
The filter cake is terephthalamide. The filter cake was washed with butyronitrile at 100℃and dried in vacuo at 150℃to give 157.9g of terephthalamide, 99.0% purity and 95.5% yield.
As is apparent from comparative example 2, the addition of a solvent without adding a low melting point acid affects the yield and purity of the phthalamide, and the reaction rate is significantly reduced to the maximum (see example 1). Because the low-melting weak acid is added in the embodiment of the invention, the high ammonia concentration in the reaction liquid phase is facilitated, and the rapid amidation of terephthalic acid is promoted.