Patent ID: 8466303
Filing Date: 2013-06-18
Classification: B01J,C07D

Abstract:
1. A process for producing an epoxy compound comprising the step of: producing a corresponding epoxy compound by reacting an organic compound having a carbon-carbon double bond with hydrogen peroxide present in an aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution to epoxidize the double bond; wherein an organic solvent is not used as a reaction solvent, and a tungsten compound and tertiary amine are used as reaction catalysts, wherein the compound having a carbon-carbon double bond has a plurality of carbon-carbon double bonds, and only one of the plurality of carbon-carbon double bonds is selectively epoxidized, and wherein the organic compound having a plurality of carbon-carbon double bonds is a compound having a cyclohexene backbone and a terminal vinyl or vinylidene group in a molecule thereof, and the carbon-carbon double bond moiety of the cyclohexene backbone is epoxidized, wherein an α-aminomethylphosphonic acid compound represented by the following structural formula: wherein R 1 represents a hydrogen atom or acyl group, and R 2 and R 3 each independently of the other represent a hydrogen atom or C 1 -C 18 alkyl group or C 1 -C 18 aryl, is further used as a co-catalyst.