Ammonium salts of .alpha.-ketocarboxylic acids

US4301186A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC · DE

Inventors

• Wolfram Mayer · Odenthal, DE
• Hans Rudolph · Krefeld, DE
• Eckhard de Cleur
• Manfred Schonfelder · Leverkusen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 28, 1979
• Grant date: Nov 17, 1981
• Expiry date: Jun 28, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C59/90
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

This invention relates to new ammonium salts of .alpha.-ketocarboxylic acids, to their use for the production of amines in situ by photochemical decomposition and to photochemically hardenable coating compositions containing these ammonium salts.