80 results about "Glycolaldehyde" patented technology

The invention provides a process of preparing glycolaldehyde by reacting formaldehyde with hydrogen and carbon monoxide in the presence of a catalyst composition which is based on, a) a source of rhodium, and b) a ligand of general formula R1P—R2(I), wherein R1 is a bivalent radical that together with the phosphorous atom to which it is attached is an optionally substituted 2-phospha-tricyclo[3.3.1.1{3,7}]-decyl group, wherein from 1 to 5 of the carbon atoms has been replaced by a heteroatom, and wherein R2 is a monovalent radical which is an optionally substituted hydrocarbyl group having from 1 to 40 carbon atoms; a catalyst composition of use in said process; and a process of preparing ethylene glycol from the glycolaldehyde thus prepared.

The invention provides a process of preparing glycolaldehyde by reacting formaldehyde with hydrogen and carbon monoxide in the presence of a catalyst composition which is based on, a) a source of rhodium, and b) a ligand of general formula R1P—R2(I), wherein R1 is a bivalent radical that together with the phosphorous atom to which it is attached is an optionally substituted 2-phospha-tricyclo[3.3.1.1{3,7}]-decyl group, wherein from 1 to 5 of the carbon atoms has been replaced by a heteroatom, and wherein R2 is a monovalent radical which is an optionally substituted hydrocarbyl group having from 1 to 40 carbon atoms; a catalyst composition of use in said process; and a process of preparing ethylene glycol from the glycolaldehyde thus prepared.

A continuous process for converting carbohydrates to ethylene and propylene glycol. The carbohydrates are mixed with water and passed through a reactor at a temperature that hydrolyzes the carbohydrate mixture at least partially to monosaccharides. The reactor has a first zone comprising a retro-aldol catalyst and a second zone comprising a reducing catalyst. The aldose is converted in the first zone into glycolaldehyde by the retro-aldol catalyst and the glycolaldehyde, in the presence of hydrogen, is converted to ethylene glycol in the second zone of the reactor. The reaction products are removed from the reactor and the ethylene glycol is recovered. The selectivity to propylene glycol can be enhanced via feeding ketose as the carbohydrate.

A process for making ethylene glycol by feeding reactants including 1,2-dioxygenated organic compounds, an organometallic homogeneous catalyst, and hydrogen to a hydrogenation reactor, reacting at least a portion of the reactants with hydrogen in the presence of the organometallic homogeneous catalyst to produce a reaction product mixture containing ethylene glycol, and passivating the catalyst by contacting the catalyst with a carbon monoxide to thereby suppress the formation of by-product diols other that the ethylene glycol primary product, and suppress the formation of by-product tetrols and by-product glycolaldehyde acetals; and separating at least a portion of the ethylene glycol from the reaction product mixture.

Disclosed are processes for the preparation of glycolaldehyde in which formaldehyde is contacted with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a rhodium catalyst and a solvent containing at least one N,N-dihexylbutyramide. The glycolaldehyde product is recovered by extraction with water. The process provides high selectivity to glycolaldehyde and efficient separation of hydroformylation products from the solvent and rhodium catalyst.

There is provided the use as reducing agents of alpha-hydroxycarbonyl compounds capable of forming cyclic dimers. There is also provided corresponding methods of reducing reducible compounds, particularly reduction-activated prodrugs . Examples of the alpha-hydroxycarbonyl compounds used are dihydroxyacetone, glycolaldehyde , glyceraldehyde, erythrose, xylulose, erythrulose or 3-hydroxy-2-butanone.

A process for the manufacture of a perfluorooxycarboxylate of formula (I): RfO—CF2CF2—O—CF2—COOXa (I), wherein Rf is a perfluoro(oxy)alkyl group, and Xa is H, a monovalent metal or an ammonium group of formula NRN4, with RN, equal or different at each occurrence, being H or a C1-6 hydrocarbon group, said process comprising: (A) reacting a perfluorovinylether of formula Rf—O—CF═CF2 with an ethylene glycol derivative selected among ethylene glycol (HO—CH2CH2—OH), glycolic acid (HO—CH2—COOH), glycolaldehyde (HO—CH2—CHO) and protected derivatives thereof, so as to yield the corresponding addition product of formula Rf—O—CFH—CF2—O—CH2-E, and E being selected among —CH2OH, —COOH and —CHO; (B) optionally protecting functional group E with suitable chemistry; (C) fluorinating the (protected) addition product to yield the corresponding perfluorinated addition product; (D) optionally deprotecting the perfluorinated addition product to yield corresponding acyl fluoride of formula Rf—O—CF2—CF2—O—CF2—C(O)F; and (E) hydrolyzing and, optionally, neutralizing, the acyl fluoride for yielding the perfluorooxycarboxylate of formula (I).

The present invention provides a method for assaying myeloperoxidase activity. In the assay, a sample containing myeloperoxidase or suspected of containing myeloperoxidase is contacted with substrate including serine, hydrogen peroxide, and a halide. If myeloperoxidase is present in the sample, serine is converted into glycolaldehyde, which is further converted into glycolate by a glycoaldehyde converting enzyme. The method then utilizes a cycling reaction system between glycolate and glyoxylate to generate a detectable signal that corresponds to the myeloperoxidase activity. Kits for assaying myeloperoxidases based on the same principle are also provided.

A process for reducing the percentage by weight of formaldehyde present in a composition comprising glycolaldehyde, wherein formaldehyde is transformed into one or more formaldehyde acetal(s) and removed from the reactive distillation reaction solution by reactive distillation in the presence of at least one alcohol and a catalyst.

The invention discloses a corynebacterium glutamicum engineering strain for biosynthesis of rare sugar, and a building method and application thereof, and discloses a corynebacterium glutamicum recombination strain SY10. An experiment proves that rare ketose and deoxidized ketose can be synthesized by adopting a plurality of hydroxyaldehydes and glucoses as substrates by the strain in a fermentation manner, for example, D-erythrulose can be synthesized by adopting formaldehyde and glucose as substrates, L-xylulose can be synthesized by adopting glycolaldehyde and glucose as substrates, D-sorbose and D-psicose can be synthesized by adopting D-glyceraldehyde and glucose as substrates, L-fructose can be synthesized by adopting L-glyceraldehyde and glucose as substrates, and 3R, 4S, 5R, 6R-heptose and 3R, 4R, 5R, 6R-heptose can be synthesized by adopting D-erythrose and glucose as substrates. Therefore, the corynebacterium glutamicum recombination strain SY10 disclosed by the invention can be applied to the field of production of the rare ketose and the deoxidized ketose by whole-cell fermentation; the produced rare ketose and deoxidized ketose have broad application prospects in the industries such as a food, a medicine and the like.