Preparation of octadienols

US4962243A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Michael Roeper · Monsheim, DE
• Werner Bertleff · Viernheim, DE
• Dieter Koeffer · Weinheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 24, 1989
• Grant date: Oct 9, 1990
• Expiry date: Feb 24, 2009

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C29/36
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Octadienols are prepared by teleomerization of 1,3-butadiene with water in the presence of carbon dioxide and a catalyst system comprising a palladium compound and a tertiary phosphorus compound by performing the reaction in the presence of a strong non-coordinating acid.