Preparation of N-substituted cyclic amines

US4910304A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Roman Fischer · Mutterstadt, DE
• Herbert Mueller · Herznach, CH
• Dieter Voges

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 31, 1989
• Grant date: Mar 20, 1990
• Expiry date: Mar 31, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/582
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

N-substituted cyclic amines of the general formula I ##STR1## where A is an alkylene group or a --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --[--O--(CH.sub.2).sub.m ].sub.r group which may be monosubstituted or polysubstituted by radicals R without the radicals R in a defined compound having to be identical, R is alkyl, alkoxyalkyl, unsubstituted or alkyl-substituted or alkoxy-substituted cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, aryl or arylalkyl, n and m independently of one another are each from 2 to 8 and r is from 1 to 3, the --(CH.sub.2).sub.n --[O--(CH.sub.2).sub.m ].sub.r group consisting of from 5 to 12 members, are prepared by reacting a primary amine of the general formula II EQU R--NH.sub.2 (II) with a diol of the general formula III EQU HO--A--OH (III) where R and A have the abovementioned meanings, and hydrogen in the presence of a copper-containing hydrogenation/dehydrogenation catalyst at elevated temperatures and under superatmospheric pressure, by a process in which the reaction is carried out in the presence of a catalytic amount of a basic alkali metal compound or alkaline earth metal compound.