Patent ID: 7741514
Filing Date: 2010-06-22
Classification: B01J,C07C,C07D,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A process for producing an organic compound, the process comprising the step of allowing (A) a compound capable of forming a radical selected from the group consisting of: (A4) compounds each having a carbon-hydrogen bond at the adjacent position to an unsaturated bond selected from the group consisting of toluene; ethylbenzene; isopropylbenzene; benzaldehyde; mixtures of toluene, ethylbenzene, isopropylbenzene and benzaldehyde; p-xylene; p-isopropyltoluene; p-diisopropylbenzene; p-tolualdehyde; p-toluic acid; p-carboxybenzaldehyde; mixtures of p-xylene, p-isopropyltoluene, p-diisopropylbenzene, p-tolualdehyde, p-toluic acid and p-carboxybenzaldehyde; m-xylene; m-tolualdehyde; m-carboxybenzaldehyde; mixtures of m-xylene, m-tolualdehyde and m-carboxybenzaldehyde; pseudocumene; dimethylbenzaldehyde; dimethylbenzoic acid; mixtures of pseudocumene, dimethylbenzaldehyde and dimethylbenzoic acid; durene; trimethylbenzaldehyde; trimethylbenzoic acid; mixtures of durene, trimethylbenzaldehyde and trimethylbenzoic acid; 3-methylquinoline; and β-picoline; and (A5) non-aromatic cyclic hydrocarbons selected from the group consisting of 3- to 30-membered cycloalkane ring, and 3- to 30-membered cycloalkene ring; to react with (B) a radical scavenging compound which is (B4) oxygen-atom-containing reactants selected from the group consisting of oxygen, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, nitric acid, nitrous acid, and salts thereof; at a reaction temperature of from 0° C. to 300° C., and a reaction pressure of from 0.1 to 10 MPa, in the presence of a catalyst comprising an imide compound having a N-substituted cyclic imide skeleton represented by following Formula (1): wherein R is a group obtained from an acid selected from the group consisting of carboxylic acids, sulfonic acids, carbonic acid, carbamic acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, phosphoric acids and boric acids by eliminating an OH group from the acid; R to yield an addition or substitution reaction product between the compound (A) and the compound (B) or a product of a reaction selected from the group consisting of dehydration reaction, cyclization reaction, decarboxylation reaction, rearrangement reaction and isomerization reaction of said addition or substitution reaction product.