Method for preparation of organic molybdenum compounds

• US 5,412,130 A
• Filed: 06/08/1994
• Issued: 05/02/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Vanderbilt Chemicals, LLC
• Original Assignee: R. T. Vanderbilt Company, Inc.
• Inventors: Karol, Thomas J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dees, Jose G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NAZARIO GONZALEZ, PORFIRIO
• Application Number:
  US08/255,690
• Time in Patent Office: 328 Days
• Field of Search: 556/57
• US Class Current: 556/57
• CPC Class Codes: C07F 11/005 compounds without a metal-carbon linkage

Abstract

A novel process for the preparation of 2,4-heteroatom substituted-molybdena-3,3-dioxacycloalkane compounds by reacting diol-, diamino-, thiol-alcohol and amino-alcohol compounds with a molybdenum source and in the presence of a phase transfer agent of the imidazoline type.

Claims

1. A process for preparing a 2,4-heteroatom-substituted molybdena-3,3-dioxocycloalkane compound comprising the steps of selecting a starting material having the structural formula ##STR6## wherein X¹ and X² are selected from the group consisting of O, S or N and where n or m=1 when X¹ or X² is O or S and n or m=2 when X¹ or X² is N, y=0 or 1, and wherein R¹, R², R³, R⁴ and R⁵ are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, alkylaryl hydrocarbon group or fatty residue containing from 1 to 50 carbon atoms or polymeric residues having a molecular weight of 150 to 1200;

and selected from poly-alpha-olefin, polypropene, polybutylene and polyisobutylene;

reacting the starting material with a molybdenum source sufficient to yield about 2 to 20 percent of molybdenum based on the weight of the molybdena-compound in the presence of water and a phase transfer agent of the formula ##STR7## wherein R⁶ is an alkyl group or fatty residue having 8 to 22 carbon atoms and X³ is a hydroxy or amino group at 60°

to 150°

C.;

removing the reaction water and diluent water and recovering the molybdena-compound of the formula ##STR8## wherein R¹, R², R³, R⁴, R⁵, X¹, X², n and m are defined and correspond to the starting materials in formula (I) and (II).

2. A process for preparing a 2,4-heteroatom substituted molybdena-3,3-dioxocyclopentane compound according to claim 1 wherein the transfer agent is 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)-2-octadecylimidazoline.

3. A process for preparing a 2,4-heteroatom substituted molybdena-3,3-dioxocyclopentane compound according to claim 1 wherein the starting material of formula I is derived from epoxidized fatty oils or fatty acids.

4. A process for preparing a 2,4-heteroatom substituted molybdena-3,3-dioxocyclopentane compound according to claim 1 wherein the starting material of formula I is derived from triglycerides.

5. A process for preparing a 2,4-heteroatom substituted molybdena-3,3-dioxocyclopentane compound according to claim 1 wherein the starting material of formula I is derived from epoxidized polymers having a molecular weight in the range of 150 to 1200 and selected from poly-alpha-olefins, polypropene, polybutylene and polyisobutylene.

6. A process for preparing a 2,4-heteroatom substituted molybdena-3,3-dioxacycloalkane compound according to claim 1 wherein the molybdenum source is an aqueous solution of ammonium molybdate, or molybdenum trioxide.