Process for the manufacture of resorcinols

US4072660A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Werner Muller · East Greenwich, US
• Hansjorg Hey · Hofheim, DE
• Tomas Weil · São Paulo, BR

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 28, 1976
• Grant date: Feb 7, 1978
• Expiry date: Jul 28, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C45/60
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Resorcinols are prepared by reacting 4-oxocarboxylic acid esters or .delta.-enollactones with a strong base in a glycol dialkyl ether as solvent and by subsequent dehydrogenating the acidified reaction product.