Preparation of adipodinitrile

US4599202A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Toni Dockner
• Manfred Sauerwald · Meckenheim, DE
• Jost H. Manegold · Lambsheim, DE
• Hans Leitner · Bischofswerda, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 3, 1985
• Grant date: Jul 8, 1986
• Expiry date: Jul 3, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C253/22
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Adipodinitrile is prepared by reacting adipic acid with excess ammonia at from 250.degree. to 350.degree. C. in the liquid phase in the presence of a diluent by a process in which a liquid hydrocarbon which is inert under the reaction conditions is used as the diluent.