METHOD OF SEPARATING MULTI-ATOM ALCOHOLS, NEOPENTYLGLYCOL AND SODIUM FORMIATE Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC C07C31/20 C07C31/18 C07C53/06 C07C27/26 C07C29/78 C07C51/43 

FIELD: chemistry.

SUBSTANCE: method of separating multi-atom alcohols, for instance, neopentylglycol and sodium formiate, includes evaporation and cooling of reaction mixture, addition of organic solvent, crystallisation of sodium formiate, separation of sodium formiate from saturated solution of multi-atom alcohol, for instance, by filtration, and crystallisation of multi-atom alcohol. Reaction mixture is evaporated until two liquid layers are formed, which are separated into light phase - water-multi-atom alcohol and heavy phase -water-salt, separated water-salt fraction of solution is cooled until sodium formiate contained in it in form of cryslallohydrate is crystallised, sodium formiate crystals are separated, and remaining mother-solution is returned to process head, to evaporation stage, then separated light phase - water-multi-atom alcohol is additionally evaporated until 70% of contained in it sodium formiate is crystallised, then cooled to 25-30°C and subjected to processing with organic solvent from line of single-atom saturated alcohols, for instance, methane, for removal of remaining admixtures, with further crystallisation of multi-atom alcohol from remaining mother-solution.

EFFECT: reduction of amount of used organic solvent, elimination of high-temperature stage of extraction, preservation of yield of pure target products.

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