Hydroformylation

US5041684A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 25, 1990
• Grant date: Aug 20, 1991
• Expiry date: Jul 25, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C45/50
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Olefinically unsaturated compounds are hydroformylated in an organic reaction medium with the aid of rhodium complex catalysts which are soluble in the reaction medium by performing the reaction in the presence of water-insoluble rhodium complex catalysts and also in the presence of arylthiols of the general formula I EQU Ar--SH I where Ar is substituted or unsubstituted aryl.