Process for the production of trihydroxy-and/or alkoxy-hydroxybenzenes

US4751332A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Degussa AG · DE

Inventors

• Guenter Prescher · Hanau, DE
• Gebhard Ritter · Ingelheim am Rhein, DE
• Holger Sauerstein · Großkrotzenburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 14, 1987
• Grant date: Jun 14, 1988
• Expiry date: Sep 14, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C41/26
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Resorcinol and substituted resorcinols are converted in one single step reaction into 1,2,3- and 1,2,4-trihydroxybenzenes and substituted hydroxy resorcinol compounds with a benzene solution of peroxypropionic acid.