Manufacture of p-alkylphenols

US4198531A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Franz Merger · Bischofswerda, DE
• Max Strohmeyer · Schifferstadt, DE
• Gerhard Sandrock · Bischofswerda, DE
• Heinz Hohenschutz · Mannheim, DE
• Ludwig Schroff, deceased · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Gerhard Nestler · Ludwigshafen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 14, 1977
• Grant date: Apr 15, 1980
• Expiry date: Oct 14, 1997

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C37/14
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

p-alkylphenols are manufactured by continuous reaction of phenol with olefins in the presence of a pulverulent polystyrenesulfonic acid ion exchanger which is suspended in the reaction mixture.