Characterisation of intermediates in the production of eta-caprolactam

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The commercially important polymer Nylon 6 is manufactured by ring-opening polymerization of eta-caprolactam. Industrially, eta-caprolactam is made by the Beckmann rearrangement of cyclohexanone oxime. Recent work at Southampton has shown that a silicon-doped faujsitic aluminophosphate; SAPO-37, is able to achieve near-quantitative yields of eta-caprolactam at temperatures as low as 130 °C. A QENS study of the diffusion of cyclohexanone oxime in SAPO-37 showed that while it was mobile below 110 °C, at 120 °C it is almost immobile. This may be explained by binding of the oxime to the SAPO framework to form a stable intermediate, before conversion to eta-caprolactam at 130 °C. The aim of this proposal is to investigate the behaviour of the oxime as a function of temperature using MAPS in order to characterise any intermediates present.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.63528564
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/63528564
Provenance
Creator Dr Ian Silverwood; Dr Alexander O'Malley; Professor Stewart Parker; Professor Robert Raja; Dr Stephanie Chapman; Professor Richard Catlow
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-09-29T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-10-07T07:00:00Z