Preparation of alkylbenzenes

US4665252A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Hoelderich · Bischofswerda, DE
• Rolf Fischer · Heidelberg, DE
• Wolf D. Mross · Bischofswerda, DE
• Frank-Friedrich Pape · Kleinniedesheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 18, 1986
• Grant date: May 12, 1987
• Expiry date: Mar 18, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C5/387
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Alkylbenzenes are prepared by converting an alkyl-, alkylidene- or alkenylcyclohexene or an alkyl- or alkenylcyclohexadiene in the presence of an acidic zeolite catalyst of the pentasil type, in the gas phase or liquid phase.