Patent · US Expired

Manufacture of secondary amines by alkylating ammonia with alcohols

US4207263A · kind A · utility

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12Claims

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Assignee

BASF SE

Inventors

Herwig Hoffmann · Bischofswerda, DE
Herbert Mueller · Herznach, CH
Herbert Toussaint · Bischofswerda, DE
Arnold Wittwer

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 31, 1979
Grant date	Jun 10, 1980
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 31, 1999

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC07C211/16
WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A process for the manufacture of secondary amines, especially fatty amines, from alcohols and ammonia over a hydrogenating catalyst in the presence of hydrogen, in which the reaction mixture essentially consists of alcohol and the amine formed, with only little ammonia, the latter being added progressively and the water formed in the reaction being removed progressively.

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