Process for the production of crystalline alcohol free alkali metal alcoholates in an inert solvent

US4150244A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Deutsche Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt Vormals Roessler

Inventors

• Helmut Knorre · Seligenstadt, DE
• Manfred Langer · Hanau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 21, 1977
• Grant date: Apr 17, 1979
• Expiry date: Mar 21, 1997

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07F1/005
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

There is described a process for the production of inert solvent soluble metal alcoholate free from alcohol of crystallization by reacting an alkali metal with an alcohol in an inert solvent above its melting point in an emulsion of the alkali metal in a solvent.