Studies of Reaction Kinetics of Catalytic Hydrogenation of Isophthalonitrile for Meta-Xylenediamine Preparation

Abstract

With Raney nickel catalyst and aniline solvent, the reaction kinetics of catalytic hydrogenation of isophthalonitrile (IPN) for meta-xylenediamine (MXDA) preparation is studied in this paper. The experiment is conducted in a 1L büchiglas high-pressure hydrogenation reactor under the condition of the reaction temperature (100°C) and the reaction pressure (35 bar). The results shows that the kinetics equation proposed in this paper can be used to predict the response speed of IPN accurately.