Catalytic preparation of condensation products of formaldehyde

US5386062A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Joaquim Henrique Teles · Waldsee, DE
• Johann-Peter Melder · Schifferstadt, DE
• Eugen Gehrer · Stockach, DE
• Wolfgang Harder · Weinheim, DE
• Klaus Ebel · Lampertheim, DE
• Carsten Groening · Mannheim, DE
• Regina Meyer

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 7, 1993
• Grant date: Jan 31, 1995
• Expiry date: Sep 7, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C45/75
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process for the catalytical preparation of condensation products of formaldehyde, in which formaldehyde or a formaldehyde-forming compound is caused to undergo reaction using a catalyst which has been produced, in the presence of an auxiliary base, from a triazolium salt of formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.3 are the same or different and stand for aliphatic groups having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms, optionally substituted aryl groups, optionally substituted aralkyl groups, and/or optionally substituted heteroaryl groups, PA1 R.sup.2 represents hydrogen, the hydroxymethylene group --CH.sub.2 OH or the hydroxy-hydroxymethylene-methylidyne group --CH(OH)(CH.sub.2 OH), and PA1 R.sup.4 denotes hydrogen, a halogen atom, a nitro or cyano group, an aliphatic group having from 1 to 30 carbon atoms, an optionally substituted aryl group, an optionally substituted aralkyl group, an optionally substituted heteroaryl group, an alkoxy group --OR.sup.5, a thioether group --SR.sup.6, an amino group --NR.sup.7R R.sup.8, an acyl group --COR.sup.9 or an ester group --COOR.sup.10, where R.sup.5, R.sup.6, R.sup.7, R.sup.8, and R.sup.9 stand for radicals such as those stated above for R.sup.…