Continuous process for the manufacture of sodium C.sub.4 -C.sub.8 alkoxide

US5723695A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• American Cyanamid Company · US

Inventors

• Jan Hendrik Wevers · Zörbig, DE
• Robert J. H. Scheffer · Ingelheim am Rhein, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 2, 1995
• Grant date: Mar 3, 1998
• Expiry date: Jun 2, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C29/70
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

There is provided a safe, efficient process for the production of sodium C.sub.4 -C.sub.8 alkoxide which utilizes a less than stoichiometric quantity of a C.sub.4 -C.sub.8 alcohol and the option of a continuous recycle of the unreacted sodium metal.