Preparation of tert-butylamine from isobutene

US4929758A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Volker Taglieber · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Wolfgang Hoelderich · Bischofswerda, DE
• Rudolf Kummer · Bischofswerda, DE
• Wolf D. Mross · Bischofswerda, DE
• Guenter Saladin · Ludwigshafen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 13, 1988
• Grant date: May 29, 1990
• Expiry date: Jun 13, 2008

Classification

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

Abstract

Amines are prepared from an olefin and ammonia or a primary and/or secondary amine in the presence of a zeolite catalyst of the pentasil type. Iron silicate zeolites of the pentasil type having an SiO.sub.2 /Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 ratio greater than or equal to 10 are preferably used.