Carbonylation of olefins

US5705683A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Ferdinand Lippert · Bad Dürkheim, DE
• Arthur Hohn · Tauberbischofsheim, DE
• Martin Schäfer · Arnstadt, DE
• Leopold Hupfer · Friedelsheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 13, 1997
• Grant date: Jan 6, 1998
• Expiry date: Jan 13, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C51/14
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The process for carbonylating olefins with carbon monoxide in the presence of water, an alcohol or a carboxylic acid and a halogen-free catalyst comprises using a catalyst comprising nickel or a nickel compound and at least one of the metals of the group consisting of chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, rhenium, ruthenium, osmium, rhodium, iridium, palladium, platinum, silver and gold, or a compound of these metals.