Composition, useful to manufacture dichloropropanol and epichlorohydrin, which is useful to manufacture e.g. epoxy resins, glycidyl ethers, glycidyl esters and products used as coagulants, comprises glycerol and cyclic oligomer of glycerol

摘要

Composition (I) comprises glycerol and at least one cyclic oligomer of glycerol (0.01-20 g/kg of (I)). Independent claims are included for: (1) a process-1 for preparing (I) comprising: (a) subjecting a composition comprising glycerol (content of cyclic oligomer of glycerol is less than 0.01 g/kg of composition), to a heating operation at >= 25[deg] C to less than 180[deg] C, in the presence of a basic agent; (b) subjecting the composition obtained at the end of step (a), to a distillation operation or to an evaporation operation, in order to obtain as a distillate or as an evaporate; and (c) optionally subjecting one fraction of the composition obtained at the end of step (b), to at least one purification treatment to obtain (I); (2) a process-2 for manufacturing dichloropropanol, comprising reacting (I) or glycerol with a chlorinating agent in a reaction medium, where the ratio of cyclic oligomers of glycerol and of the sum of the quantities of glycerol and of cyclic oligomers of glycerol, is 0.01-20 g/kg; (3) a process-3 for manufacturing epichlorohydrin comprising the process-2 as above, per se, in which the dichloropropanol obtained is subjected to a dehydrochlorination reaction; (4) an epichlorohydrin obtained by the process-3; and (5) a process-4 for manufacturing epoxy resins, glycidyl ethers, glycidyl esters, glycidyl amides, glycidyl imides, glycidyl amines or products that can be used as coagulants, water-resistant resins, cationization agents, flame retardants, ingredients for detergents, epichlorohydrin elastomers, halogenated polyethers-polyols or monochloropropanediol, preferably 3-chloro-1,2-propanediol, comprising the process-3 as above, per se, in which the epichlorohydrin is subjected to a reaction with at least one compound of monoalcohols, monocarboxylic acids, polyols, polyamines, amino alcohols, polyimides, polyamides, polycarboxylic acids, ammonia, amines, polyaminoamides, polyimines, amine salts, phosphoric acid or its salts, phosphorus oxychlorides, phosphoric acid esters, phosphonic acids or its esters or salts, phosphinic acids or its esters or salts, phosphine oxides, phosphines, ethoxylated alcohols and/or alkylene or phenylene oxides, in which the epichlorohydrin is subjected to a homopolymerization reaction, a reaction of oligomerization, co-oligomerization, condensation, dehydrochlorination and hydrolysis, with water, or with a di- or polyhydroxylated compound which may optionally be halogenated and/or have ether oxide bonds and/or double bonds capable of being halogenated in a subsequent stage, and where epichlorohydrin is subjected to a reaction with water.