Process for producing aldehydes

US5200380A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Anton Herrmann · Freising, DE
• Christian Kohlpaintner · Kelkheim, DE
• Helmut Bahrmann · Hamminkeln, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 6, 1991
• Grant date: Apr 6, 1993
• Expiry date: Dec 6, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J2531/96
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The hydroformylation of olefins and olefinically unsaturated compounds in the presence of a water-soluble rhodium complex compound which contains, as a ligand, at least one sulfonated diphosphine, and a catalyst therefor.