Preparation of carbonyl compounds

US4814513A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Fritz Graf · Speyer, DE
• Heinz Engelbach
• Leopold Hupfer · Friedelsheim, DE
• Harald Schultheiss · Bischofswerda, DE
• Michael Jolyon Sprague · Mannheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 9, 1987
• Grant date: Mar 21, 1989
• Expiry date: Dec 9, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C45/38
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process for the preparation of carbonyl compounds by oxidation of alcohols in the gas phase with a gas containing oxygen in the presence of catalysts containing copper or silver and a phosphorus compound that is volatile under the conditions of the reaction, the ratio of the mass of phosphorus to the mass of the alcohol being less than 0.5 ppm.