Process for the production of 1-amino-propanediol-2,3

US4360697A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Degussa AG · DE

Inventors

• Axel Kleemann · Hanau, DE
• Robert Nygren · Hanau, DE
• Rudolf Wagner · Fontnas, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 9, 1981
• Grant date: Nov 23, 1982
• Expiry date: Apr 9, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C213/04
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The production of 1-amino-propanediol-2,3 is attained with good yields and in an industrially simple manner by reacting liquid ammonia with glycidol under pressure in the presence of a small amount of an organic solvent.