United States Patent Office Patented July 17, 1962 1
3,045,050 United States Patent Office Patented July 17, 1962 1. 2 3,045,050 is reacted in the presence of a condensation agent, for METHOD OF PRODUCING AROMATIC example aluminum chloride. However, this method is SULPONES not very suitable for the production of ketones or com Cornelis Johannes' Schoot, Klaas Hinderikus Klaassens, and Johannes Jacobus Ponjee, Eindhoven, Netherlands, pounds which contain an aliphatic or cyclic ether or thio assignors to North American Philips Company, Inc., ether group. In these compounds, generally the ether New York, N.Y., a corporation of Delaware or thio-ether bond will be split as a secondary reaction No Drawing. Fied July 30, 1958, Ser. No. 751,885 by the action of the condensation agent, in the method in Claims priority, application Netherlands Aug. 14, 1957 accordance with the invention this disadvantage does not 10 Claims. (Cl. 260-607) occur, ether and thio-ether bonds are substantially not 10 attacked. This invention relates to a method of producing aro Suitable metal salts of sulfuric acid are the salts of the matic sulphones, characterized in that an aromatic com metals of the subgroups of the periods IV, V and VI and pound RH or RH or a mixture of these compounds, of the group VIII of the periodic table of the elements where R and R' can be equal or different and both rep and the salts of manganese, and particularly the salts of resent a benzene, naphthalene or thiophen nucleus which 15 the group comprising silver, zinc, cadmium, copper, carries at least one hydrocarbon radical or at least one mercury, tin and lead.
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