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  • the present. invention relates to a process for the manufacture of tetra-sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate.
  • this process is characterized by the addition, as a single stream, of an acid-stabilized aqueous solution of hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde to ethylenediamine in an aqueous alkaline solution or suspension, at relatively high temperatureadvantageously' in'the range from about 95 to about 110'C., and
  • Cyanide is, to a very large extent, prepared as the free acid.
  • the use of hydrogen cyanide directly, according to the present invention, makes it unnecessaryto neutralize the HCN by means of alkali to produce the previously-employed alkali metal cyanide.
  • shipment of hydrogen cyanide is cheaper than shipment of aqueous sodium cyanide since the maximum concentration thatis practical with the sodium .salt is This circum:
  • a primary object of the present invention is the embodiment of a process which is free of the deficiencies realized, as above indicated, by the expedient of employing an acid-stabilized equimolar mixture of hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde, whereby these reagents can be added simultaneously, i. e. in the form of a single stream, to the reactor containing the heated solution of ethylenediamine and alkali metal hydroxide or other base.
  • This object is 1 single reactor, also allows for' greater flexibility of operation.
  • this process it is possible by this process to prepare a wide variety of salts of the aminocarboxylic acid by the use of, for example, barium hydroxide, calcium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide, etc., as the base, instead of NaOH.
  • barium hydroxide calcium hydroxide
  • potassium hydroxide trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide, etc.
  • the process of the invention is applicable generally to wetting agents, metal-ion sequestering agents, or as intermediates for thepreparation of the same. Thus, for ex-.
  • alkali hydroxide is, for practical reasons,
  • the single stream expedient of the present invention results in a one-step process for the manufacture of the desired carboxymethylated ethylenediamine derivative using HCN as a starting material. This avoids the necessity of the alternate addition of the cyanide and formaldehyde and the entailed close supervision as required by the first above-described process, and also avoids the necessity of preparing glycolonitrile in a special first step as required by the second above-described process.
  • the use of iron chelates of ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid forthe treatment of iron deficiencies (chlorosis) in orange and grapefruit 5 groves is, for. ex
  • Example I An acid-stabilized solution of formaldehyde-hydrogenl cyanide is prepared by the dropwise addition, at about Patented July 29, 1 958 water, S84-parts.
  • ethylenediamine is heated to 100 C. with stirring.
  • the previously-prepared acid-stabilized HCN-HCHO solution is then added to the alkali-ethylenediamine solution slowly, with stirring, addition preferably being eifected beneath the surface of the latter and being completed in the course of about 3 hours.
  • an additional 16.2 parts by weight of 37% aqueous formaldehyde are added.
  • the resulting solution contains 380 parts of tetrasodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate.
  • the tetra-sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate may, if desired be recovered from the said solution in any appropriate and per se known manner, as for example by evaporation and recrystallization.
  • the acid stabilization may be also effected with another mineral acid, as for example hydrochloric acid, phosphoric acid, phosphorous acid and the like.
  • Example 2 500 parts by weight of water are added to 1460 parts by weight of the tetra-sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate-containing solution, obtained according to the second paragraph of Example 1. While stirring, hydrochloric acid (33%) is added until the pH is about 2. Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid precipitates, and is filtered off, washed chloride-free, and dried. A yield of 96-98% is obtained.
  • Example 3 An acid-stabilized solution consisting of 85.1 parts by weight of 37% formaldehyde and 29.7 parts by weight of hydrogen cyanide is added beneath the surface to a solution consisting of 500 parts by weight of water, 104 parts by weight of 50% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution and 105 parts by weight of diethanolamine at 100 C. in the course of 3 hours. Upon completion of the addition, 4.0 parts of 37% formaldehyde are added. The resulting solution contains 108 parts by weight of sodium dihydroxyethylglycinate.
  • Example 4 An acid-stabilized solution consisting of 256 parts by weight of 37% formaldehyde and 89 parts by weight of hydrogen cyanide is added beneath the surface to a solution consisting of 400 parts by weight of water, 312 parts by weight of 50% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution and 104 parts by weight of aminoethylethanolamine at 100 C. in the course of 3 hours. Upon completion of the addition, and then after the further addition of 12.15 parts by weight of 37% formaldehyde, the resulting solution contains 341 parts by weight of trisodium hydroxyethylethylene-diamine triacetate.
  • a method for carboxymethylation of amines which comprises gradually adding an aqueous mineral acidinhibited substantially equimolar mixture of hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde to an aqueous solution of an alkaline hydroxide and an amine having at least one replaceable hydrogen atom attached directly to each amino nitrogen, said solution being maintained during said addition at a reaction temperature in the range of about 95-110 C. whereby carboxymethylation of the amine to the corresponding acetate salt takes place with the simultaneous liberation of ammonia.
  • a process according to claim 1, wherein the acid inhibition is effected by the incorporation of hydrochloric acid in the hydrogen cyanide-formaldehyde mixture and by maintaining the temperature of said liquid mixture below about 5 C. until used.
  • a method for the preparation of a tetra salt of ethylenediamine tetraacetate by the gradual addition of a mineral acid-inhibited equimolar mixture of hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde to an aqueous solution of ethylenedia-mine and an alkaline hydroxide at a temperature of about to about 110 C., whereby carboxymethylation of the amine to the corresponding tetrasalt of ethylenedia-mine tetraacetate takes place with simultaneous liberation of ammonia.
  • a method for the carboxymethylation of amines which comprises gradually adding an aqueous mineral acid-inhibited substantially equi-molar mixture of hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde at a temperature of about 0-5 C., to a hot, cyanide-free, aqueous solution of an alkaline hydroxide and an amine having at least one replaceable hydrogen atom attached directly to each amine nitrogen atom, whereby the number of mols of cyanide and formaldehyde added to the hot alkaline solution are at all times substantially equal, said alkaline solution being maintained during said addition at a reaction temperature in the range of about 95-110 C. whereby carboxymethylation of the amine to the corresponding acetate salt takes place with the simultaneous liberation of ammonia.
  • a method for the preparation of tetra-sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate by the gradual addition of a mineral acid-inhibited mixture of hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde at a temperature of about 05 C. and at a pH of less than 1, to a hot, cyanide-free, aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide and ethylenediamine at a temperature of about 95 to about C., whereby carboxymethylation of the amine to the tetra-sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate takes place with simultaneous liberation of ammonia.

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of the aforedescribed prior processes.
United States Patent-O 2,845,457 PROCESS FORTHE MANUFACTURE OF TETRA- SODIUM ETHYLENEDIAMINE TETRAACETATE Harry Kroll, Warwick, and Martin Dexter, Cranston, R. L, assignors to Geigy Chemical Corporation, New
. York, N. Y., a corporation of Delaware No Drawing. Application November 3, 1955 Serial No. 544,811 9 Claims. (Cl. 260534) The present. invention relates to a process for the manufacture of tetra-sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate. I
Briefly stated, this process is characterized by the addition, as a single stream, of an acid-stabilized aqueous solution of hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde to ethylenediamine in an aqueous alkaline solution or suspension, at relatively high temperatureadvantageously' in'the range from about 95 to about 110'C., and
preferably at 100l05 C.and at atmospheric pressure. The reaction involved is as follows:-
NaOOC.CI:Iz CHz.COONa /N-CH2CH2N 4NHs NaOOQCHr CH2.QOONa The preparation of tetra-sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate, as heretofore carried out, has been handicapped by the use of sodium cyanide and by the necessity,
in order to avoid undesired hydrolysis, of adding the sodium cyanide and formaldehyde separately and alternately and in closely controlled amounts, continuing this 1 stepwise procedure until complete carboxymethylation of the amine is achieved. The conversion of ethylenedia- .about 40%, the remainder being water. I
stance contributes to the superior economic feasibility to be realized. It also makes possible the addition, if. desired, of a calculated excess of either formaldehyde or of hydrogen cyanide to improve the product quality and yield.
Cyanide is, to a very large extent, prepared as the free acid. The use of hydrogen cyanide directly, according to the present invention, makes it unnecessaryto neutralize the HCN by means of alkali to produce the previously-employed alkali metal cyanide. Inthis connection, shipment of hydrogen cyanide is cheaper than shipment of aqueous sodium cyanide since the maximum concentration thatis practical with the sodium .salt is This circum:
of the process according to thepresent invention...
The present process which, as, indicated, makes it possible to prepare the carboxymethylated product in a mine, in this manner, to the tetra-sodium.ethylenediamine 'tetraacetate requires at least four separate additions of sodium cyanide to the reactor at precisely timed intervals which, in turn, are dependent on the quantity of forma1- dehyde which has been added to the reactor, To avoid the defects of this prior procedure, it has been proposed to carry out the reaction with pre-formed glycolonitrile instead of with the alternately added sodium cyanide and formaldehyde. Apart from the advantages involved in this solution of the problem, it is unavoidably burdened by the necessity of carrying out the separate preparation of the glycolonitrile as a first step of the overall process. I
A primary object of the present invention is the embodiment of a process which is free of the deficiencies realized, as above indicated, by the expedient of employing an acid-stabilized equimolar mixture of hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde, whereby these reagents can be added simultaneously, i. e. in the form of a single stream, to the reactor containing the heated solution of ethylenediamine and alkali metal hydroxide or other base. The
This object, is 1 single reactor, also allows for' greater flexibility of operation. Thus, it is possible by this process to prepare a wide variety of salts of the aminocarboxylic acid by the use of, for example, barium hydroxide, calcium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide, etc., as the base, instead of NaOH. Inthe first above-described process, for instance, it would be necessary. to use difierent metal cyanides and. thus to complicate storage problems.
The process of the invention is applicable generally to wetting agents, metal-ion sequestering agents, or as intermediates for thepreparation of the same. Thus, for ex-.
ample, the tetra-sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate can be converted according to the following equation into. the
- ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid:
preferred alkali hydroxide is, for practical reasons,
sodium hydroxide, although the process can also be carried'out with the use of other bases. The single stream expedient of the present invention results in a one-step process for the manufacture of the desired carboxymethylated ethylenediamine derivative using HCN as a starting material. This avoids the necessity of the alternate addition of the cyanide and formaldehyde and the entailed close supervision as required by the first above-described process, and also avoids the necessity of preparing glycolonitrile in a special first step as required by the second above-described process.
The single stream type of addition of the hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde, accordingv to the present invention, enables a much better control over the process.
Naooccm i omocom NE-CHgCHz-N -41:01 Naoooc K i CHLCOONQ noodom onrooon I N-OHrCHa-N 5000.011; onaooorr Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid is a well-known seques ten'ng agent. The use of iron chelates of ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid forthe treatment of iron deficiencies (chlorosis) in orange and grapefruit 5 groves is, for. ex
ample, known. It is also known to use the calcium disodium salt in pharmaceuticals to prevent calcium-depletion in the body.
'The following is a representative presently-preferred embodiment of the present invention, as applied to the carboxymethylation of ethylenediamine:
Example I An acid-stabilized solution of formaldehyde-hydrogenl cyanide is prepared by the dropwise addition, at about Patented July 29, 1 958 water, S84-parts.
of ethylenediamine is heated to 100 C. with stirring. The previously-prepared acid-stabilized HCN-HCHO solution is then added to the alkali-ethylenediamine solution slowly, with stirring, addition preferably being eifected beneath the surface of the latter and being completed in the course of about 3 hours. Upon completion of the addition, an additional 16.2 parts by weight of 37% aqueous formaldehyde are added. The resulting solution contains 380 parts of tetrasodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate.
The tetra-sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate may, if desired be recovered from the said solution in any appropriate and per se known manner, as for example by evaporation and recrystallization.
In lieu of sulfuric acid, the acid stabilization may be also effected with another mineral acid, as for example hydrochloric acid, phosphoric acid, phosphorous acid and the like.
The following example illustrates the conversion of the tetra-sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate to the free ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid:
Example 2 500 parts by weight of water are added to 1460 parts by weight of the tetra-sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate-containing solution, obtained according to the second paragraph of Example 1. While stirring, hydrochloric acid (33%) is added until the pH is about 2. Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid precipitates, and is filtered off, washed chloride-free, and dried. A yield of 96-98% is obtained.
The following examples illustrate the application of the invention to other amines:
Example 3 An acid-stabilized solution consisting of 85.1 parts by weight of 37% formaldehyde and 29.7 parts by weight of hydrogen cyanide is added beneath the surface to a solution consisting of 500 parts by weight of water, 104 parts by weight of 50% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution and 105 parts by weight of diethanolamine at 100 C. in the course of 3 hours. Upon completion of the addition, 4.0 parts of 37% formaldehyde are added. The resulting solution contains 108 parts by weight of sodium dihydroxyethylglycinate.
Example 4 An acid-stabilized solution consisting of 256 parts by weight of 37% formaldehyde and 89 parts by weight of hydrogen cyanide is added beneath the surface to a solution consisting of 400 parts by weight of water, 312 parts by weight of 50% aqueous sodium hydroxide solution and 104 parts by weight of aminoethylethanolamine at 100 C. in the course of 3 hours. Upon completion of the addition, and then after the further addition of 12.15 parts by weight of 37% formaldehyde, the resulting solution contains 341 parts by weight of trisodium hydroxyethylethylene-diamine triacetate.
Having thus disclosed the invention, what is claimed is:
1. A method for carboxymethylation of amines which comprises gradually adding an aqueous mineral acidinhibited substantially equimolar mixture of hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde to an aqueous solution of an alkaline hydroxide and an amine having at least one replaceable hydrogen atom attached directly to each amino nitrogen, said solution being maintained during said addition at a reaction temperature in the range of about 95-110 C. whereby carboxymethylation of the amine to the corresponding acetate salt takes place with the simultaneous liberation of ammonia.
2. A process according to claim 1, wherein the acid inhibition is effected by the incorporation of a mineral acid in the hydrogen cyanide-formaldehyde mixture and by maintaining the temperature of said liquid mixture below about 5 C. until used.
3. A process according to claim 1, wherein the acid inhibition is effected by the incorporation of hydrochloric acid in the hydrogen cyanide-formaldehyde mixture and by maintaining the temperature of said liquid mixture below about 5 C. until used.
4. A process according to claim 1, wherein the acid inhibition is effected by the incorporation of sulfuric acid in the hydrogen cyanide-formaldehyde mixture and by maintaining the temperatureof said liquid mixture below about 5 C. until used.
5. A method for the preparation of a tetra salt of ethylenediamine tetraacetate by the gradual addition of a mineral acid-inhibited equimolar mixture of hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde to an aqueous solution of ethylenedia-mine and an alkaline hydroxide at a temperature of about to about 110 C., whereby carboxymethylation of the amine to the corresponding tetrasalt of ethylenedia-mine tetraacetate takes place with simultaneous liberation of ammonia.
6. A method for the preparation of a tetra salt of ethylenediamine tetraacetate by the gradual addition of a mineral acid-inhibited equimolar mixture of hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde to an aqueous solution of ethylenediamine and an alkaline hydroxide at a temperature of 105 C., whereby carboxymethylation of the amine to the corresponding tetra-salt of ethylenediamine tetraacetate takes place with simultaneous liberation of ammonia.
7. A method for the preparation of tetra-sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate by the gradual addition of a mineral acid-inhibited equimolar mixture of hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde to an aqueous solution of ethylenediamine and sodium hydroxide at 'a temperature of 100-105 C., whereby carboxymethylation of the amine to the tetra-sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate takes place with simultaneous liberation of ammonia.
8. A method for the carboxymethylation of amines which comprises gradually adding an aqueous mineral acid-inhibited substantially equi-molar mixture of hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde at a temperature of about 0-5 C., to a hot, cyanide-free, aqueous solution of an alkaline hydroxide and an amine having at least one replaceable hydrogen atom attached directly to each amine nitrogen atom, whereby the number of mols of cyanide and formaldehyde added to the hot alkaline solution are at all times substantially equal, said alkaline solution being maintained during said addition at a reaction temperature in the range of about 95-110 C. whereby carboxymethylation of the amine to the corresponding acetate salt takes place with the simultaneous liberation of ammonia.
9. A method for the preparation of tetra-sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate by the gradual addition of a mineral acid-inhibited mixture of hydrogen cyanide and formaldehyde at a temperature of about 05 C. and at a pH of less than 1, to a hot, cyanide-free, aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide and ethylenediamine at a temperature of about 95 to about C., whereby carboxymethylation of the amine to the tetra-sodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate takes place with simultaneous liberation of ammonia.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,175,805 Jacobsen Oct. 10, 1939 2,205,995 Ulrich et a1. June 25, 1940 2,387,735 Bersworth Oct. 30, 1945 2,407,645 Bersworth Sept. 17, 1946 2,419,157 Parry Apr. 15, 1947 2,461,519 Bersworth Feb. 15, 1949 2,511,487 Thompson June 13, 1950 OTHER REFERENCES Smith et al.: Jour. Org. Chem., vol. 14 (1949), pp.

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1. A METHOD FOR CARBOXYMETHYLATION AMINES WHICH COMPRISES GRADUALLY ADDING AN AQUEOUS MINERAL ACID INHIBITED SUBSTANTIALLY EQUIMOLAR MIXTURE OF HYDROGEN CYANIDE AND FORMALDEHYDE TO AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION OF AN ALKALINE HYDROXIDE AND AN AMINE HAVING AT LEAST ONE REPLACEABLE HYDROGEN ATOM ATTACHED DIRECTLY TO EACH AMINO NITROGEN, SAID SOLUTION BEING MAINTAINED DURING SAID ADDITION AT A REACTION TEMPERATURE IN THE RANGE OF ABOUT 95-110*C. WHEREBY CARBOXYMETHYLATION OF THE AMINE TO THE CORRESPONDING ACETATE SALT TAKES PLACE WITH THE SIMULTANEOUS LIBERATION OF AMMONIA.
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