Electrochemical manufacture of pinacol

US3984294A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Heinz Nohe
• Fritz Beck · Duisburg, DE
• Dietmar Werner · Bad Dürkheim, DE
• Ernst-Juergen Schier · Altleiningen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 28, 1974
• Grant date: Oct 5, 1976
• Expiry date: Aug 28, 1994

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C25B3/295
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Pinacol is manufactured by electrolytic hydrodimerization of acetone in a compartmented cell using a catholyte which contains from 10 to 90% by weight of acetone, from 1 to 60% by weight of water and from 1 to 50% by weight of a quaternary ammonium salt.