Process for the manufacture of methyl chloride

US4465880A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Grunbein · Liederbach, DE
• Wilhelm Lendle · Bad Soden am Taunus, DE
• Hendrik W. Post · Hofheim, DE
• Heinz Richter
• Manfred Rossberg · Idstein, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 24, 1981
• Grant date: Aug 14, 1984
• Expiry date: Apr 24, 2001

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C17/16
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Methyl chloride is manufactured from methanol and hydrogen chloride in the gaseous phase in the presence of an aluminum oxide catalyst. The reaction is carried out in the presence of from 1 to 80 liters of oxygen per kg of methanol.