摘要 |
<p>The invention relates to a process for the purification of epsilon -caprolactam prepared by catalytic cyclohexanone oxime rearrangement in the gaseous phase which comprises mixing the crude lactam at a temperature above its melting point with at least one branched aliphatic hydrocarbon, the mixing proportions ensuring the formation of a liquid lactam phase in addition to the hydrocarbon phase, separating off the hydrocarbon phase, recrystallising the dissolved lactam from the hydrocarbon phase by cooling, and subjecting the lactam crystals thus obtained to fractional vacuum distillation.</p> |