Preparation of carbonyl compounds

US4851584A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Fritz Graf · Speyer, DE
• Leopold Hupfer · Friedelsheim, DE
• Harald Schultheiss · Bischofswerda, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 30, 1988
• Grant date: Jul 25, 1989
• Expiry date: Mar 30, 2008

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 and silver.