Process for reacting alcohols and/or phenols with phosphorus pentasulfide

US4397791A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Werner Krause · Plantsville, US
• Jurgen Grosse · Hürth, DE
• Werner Klose · Lechenich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 13, 1981
• Grant date: Aug 9, 1983
• Expiry date: Mar 13, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07F9/18
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a process wherein an alcohol and/or phenol is reacted with phosphorus pentasulfide in the presence of a catalyst which is selected from PA0 (a) phosphonium salts of the general formula: ##STR1## (b) ammonium salts of the general formula: ##STR2## (c) phosphine oxides of the general formula: ##STR3## (d) phosphine sulfides of the general formula: ##STR4## (e) phosphinic acid derivatives of the general formula: ##STR5## In formulae I through V, the substituents R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each stand for identical or different alkyl-, aryl-, alkaryl- or aralkyl- groups having from 1 to 22 carbon atoms. A stands for an inorganic or organic acid, and X and Y, respectively, stand for both oxygen and sulfur, and M stands for a monovalent metal or oxygen.