Process for the production of tertiary alcohols

US4760202A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Deutsche Texaco Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Michael Dettmer · Glinde, DE
• Gunther Osterburg · Rheurdt, DE
• Milan Prezelj · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Werner Webers · Dinslaken, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 18, 1987
• Grant date: Jul 26, 1988
• Expiry date: Aug 18, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C29/04
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Tertiary alcohols with 4 or 5 carbon atoms are produced by reacting an isoolefin-containing hydrocarbon stream with water in the presence of a strongly acidic, solid hydration catalyst in such a way that each of the two process streams, the hydrocarbon stream and the process water, is cascaded through several reactors connected in series such that one process stream is fed to one end of the line of reactors and the other process stream to the other end of the line of reactors, and the two process streams pass through the line of reactors in opposite directions, while they pass through the individual reactors as parallel currents.