Method of producing racemic amino alcohols

US5672753A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Degussa AG · DE

Inventors

• Karlheinz Drauz · Alzenau, DE
• Wilfried Jahn · Gelnhausen, DE
• Michael Schwarm · Alzenau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 21, 1996
• Grant date: Sep 30, 1997
• Expiry date: Feb 21, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C215/08
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

.alpha.-oximino carboxylic acids or their esters are reduced with an alkali boron hydride and hydrogen chloride or sulfuric acid to yield racemic amino alcohols (e.g. (RS)-tert-leucinol).