Manufacture of carbonyl compounds

US4239657A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Axel Nissen
• Gerd Heiien · Bischofswerda, DE
• Ekkehard Sapper · Rimpar, DE
• Werner Fliege
• Arnold Wittwer

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 12, 1979
• Grant date: Dec 16, 1980
• Expiry date: Feb 12, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C45/74
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Aldehydes or ketones of not less than 4 or 5 carbon atoms, respectively, are manufactured in a one stage process in the liquid phase by subjecting aldehydes and/or ketones of not less than 2 or 3 carbon atoms, respectively, to an aldol condensation and hydrogenating the resulting olefinically unsaturated aldehyde, the catalyst used for the aldol condensation and hydrogenation containing nickel or cobalt or their mixtures, zinc oxide and at least one of the elements iron, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, gallium, indium, thallium, germanium, tin, lead, cadmium and mercury or compounds of the said elements.