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Manufacture of cyclohexanol from cyclohexene

US3988379A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik Aktiengesellschaft

Inventors

Rolf Platz
Werner Fuchs · Herrsching am Ammersee, DE
Christian Dudeck

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 5, 1974
Grant date	Oct 26, 1976
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 5, 1994

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC07C2601/14
WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A continuous process for the manufacture of cyclohexanol from cyclohexene in two stages involving the addition of sulfuric acid and hydration, the addition of sulfuric acid being carried out in the presence of iron(II) sulfate. In a special embodiment, the addition of sulfuric acid is carried out in the first stage at atmospheric pressure and at the boiling temperature of cyclohexene.

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