Preparation of amines

US4234727A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Herbert Toussaint · Bischofswerda, DE
• Wolfgang Schroeder · Aachen, DE
• Wolfgang Franzischka · Bischofswerda, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 22, 1979
• Grant date: Nov 18, 1980
• Expiry date: Aug 22, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C209/26
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Amines are N-alkylated by reaction with an alcohol or a carbonyl compound in the presence of hydrogen under atmospheric pressure in the gas phase over a catalyst, containing copper and aluminum, which is obtained by heating and reducing a basic precipitate of salts of copper and aluminum.