Manufacture of substituted glycinonitriles

US4022815A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Helmut Schlecht · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Harry Distler · Worms, DE
• Erwin Hartert · Ludwigshafen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 16, 1976
• Grant date: May 10, 1977
• Expiry date: Jan 16, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C255/00
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

N-Alkylglycinonitriles are manufactured by reaction of N-alkylamines with formaldehyde and hydrocyanic acid under specific conditions of temperature, reaction time and hydrocyanic acid concentration.