A process of recovering propylene and N-butyraldehyde from a purge gas includes forming a first product stream including N-butyraldehyde by reacting propylene and a first synthesis gas in the presence of a first catalyst in a first reactor and a second reactor; withdrawing a mixed stream from the second reactor; separating a liquid stream and purge gas from the mixed stream and recycling the liquid stream to the second reactor; reacting the purge gas and a second synthesis gas in the presence of a second catalyst in a purge gas reactor to form a second product stream including N-butyraldehyde; withdrawing the second product stream including N-butyraldehyde from the purge gas reactor and combining the second product stream including N-butyraldehyde and the first product stream including N-butyraldehyde; and withdrawing a stream including N-butyraldehyde from the purge gas reactor and recovering N-butyraldehyde from the stream including N-butyraldehyde product stream.

The invention relates to a method for preparation of diesters from anhydrides of carboxylic acids.

Provided are a water-soluble triarylphosphine for a palladium catalyst, which has high selectivity in a telomerization reaction and is easily recovered with efficiency, an ammonium salt thereof, and a method for efficiently producing the same. Specifically, provided are bis(6-methyl-3-sulphophenyl)(2-methylphenyl)phosphine; a bis(6-methyl-3-sulphonatophenyl)(2-methylphenyl)phosphine diammonium salt obtained by reacting the phosphine with a tertiary amine having a total of 3 to 27 carbon atoms in groups bonded to one nitrogen atom; and a method for producing the same.

The present invention relates to catalyst compositions for hydroformylation processes and to hydroformylation processes utilizing certain catalysts. In one aspect, a catalyst composition for a hydroformylation process comprises (a) a transition metal; (b) a monophosphine; and (c) a tetraphosphine having the structure described herein, and wherein the composition comprises at least 40 moles of monophosphine per mole of transition metal.

The present invention relates to methods for slowing deactivation of a catalyst and/or slowing tetraphosphine ligand usage in a hydroformylation process. In one aspect, a method comprises (a) contacting an olefin with carbon monoxide, hydrogen and a catalyst, the catalyst comprising (A) a transition metal, (B) a tetraphosphine having the structure described herein, and, optionally, (C) a monophosphine having the structure described herein, the contacting conducted in one or more reaction zones and at hydroformylation conditions; and (b) adding additional monophosphine having the structure described herein to a reaction zone.

A method for preparing an acrylonitrile dimer according to the present disclosure makes it is possible to efficiently recover an acrylonitrile dimerization catalyst while reducing the process load.

The present invention relates to a catalyst composition for synthesis of heteroaromatic biaryls by a light-assisted decarboxylative carbon-carbon cross-coupling reaction, wherein the composition comprises (i) a palladium compound which is selected from a palladium salt or a palladium complex or a mixture thereof, (ii) at least one of the following compounds: a compound of Formula (I)

##STR00001## a compound of Formula (II)

##STR00002## an iridium complex comprising ligands L.sup.1, L.sup.2 and L.sup.3, wherein the ligands L.sup.1, L.sup.2 and L.sup.3 are selected, independently from each other, from a phenylpyridine and a bipyridine.

A method for preparing cyclododecene and a synthesis device therefor, of the present invention, remarkably increase the conversion ratio of cyclododecatriene and selectivity of cyclododecene, can minimize the costs required for equipment and processing, are practical, reduce processing time, and are industrially advantageous to mass production in comparison with a conventional method and device.

Reactor liquids, compositions, and methods of forming acetic acid, which may reduce catalyst loss. The reactor liquids and compositions may include, and the methods may use, a tri-aliphatic hydrocarbyl phosphine oxide. The carbonylation catalyst used in the methods may include rhodium. A composition comprising: acetic acid; water; and at least one tri-aliphatic hydrocarbyl phosphine oxide; wherein the acetic acid is present in the composition at an amount of about 60% to about 80%, by weight, based on the weight of the composition; wherein the water is present in the composition at an amount of about 0.1% to about 6%, by weight, based on the weight of the composition; and wherein the at least one tri-aliphatic hydrocarbyl phosphine oxide is present in the composition at an amount of about 2% to about 20%, by weight, based on the weight of the composition.

Provided is a method for preparing an epoxy compound having an alkoxysilyl group effectively by using a mild catalyst as well as an aromatic alcohol ring-opening agent. The preparation method for an epoxy compound having an alkoxysilyl group includes: performing a ring opening step by reacting an epoxy compound having an epoxide group, which is a starting material, with an aromatic alcohol ring-opening agent in the presence of a phosphine-based catalyst and an optional solvent so as to obtain an intermediate having a partially ring-opened epoxide group; and performing an alkoxysilylation step by reacting the intermediate having a partially ring-opened epoxide with isocyanate alkoxysilane.