Production of tertiary amines

US4442306A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Herbert Mueller · Herznach, CH
• Hartmut Axel · Schwetzingen, DE
• Arnold Wittwer

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 20, 1982
• Grant date: Apr 10, 1984
• Expiry date: Jul 20, 2002

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/584
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Tertiary amines are produced by reacting a secondary amine having identical or different substituents, in particular a readily volatile amine, with a primary or secondary monohydric or polyhydric alcohol, in particular a sparingly volatile fatty alcohol, over a copper catalyst formed directly from copper formate under the reaction conditions.