Phosphoric Acid → 1H-Pyrrole-2,5-dione, 1-dodecyl-

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The same reactor as used in Example 7 was adopted. In this reactor, a solution of 120 g of maleic anhydride in 360 g of tetrahydronaphthalene was placed. Then, a solution of 220 g of dodecylamine and 1760 g of tetrahydronaphthalene was added thereto at 40° C. over a period of 120 minutes. After the addition was completed, the resultant mixture and 65.4 g of ortho-phosphoric acid (purity 89% by weight), 1.344 g of methoxybenzoquinone, and 0.1 g of zinc acetate added thereto were heated at 210° C. for one hour to effect reaction. Thereafter, the resultant reaction mixture was cooled to 30° C. and separated into a water layer and a tetrahydronaphthalene layer. The tetrahydronaphthalene layer was distilled to expel tetrahydronaphthalene. Consequently, there was obtained 285 g of slightly impure N-dodecyl maleimide. It was found to have purity of 92.3% by weight, indicating the yield thereof to be 83.5 mol % based on dodecylamine.

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