Method for making amines

US4621158A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• SCHERING CORPORATION · US

Inventors

• Hans Hubert · Hamm, DE
• Klaus D. Tillmetz · Berlin, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 21, 1985
• Grant date: Nov 4, 1986
• Expiry date: Aug 21, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C209/22
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method for making amines by reacting alcohols and/or aldehydes with primary and/or secondary amines or with ammonia in the presence of a catalyst at elevated temperature, and optionally at elevated pressure, in the liquid phase, the catalyst being an unsupported catalyst consisting of a combination of copper and tin compounds.