Process for preparing hydroxymethylcyclopropane

US5767326A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Huels Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Kleemiss · Haltern, DE
• Marcel Feld · Cologne, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 7, 1997
• Grant date: Jun 16, 1998
• Expiry date: Mar 7, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C2601/02
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process for preparing hydroxymethylcyclopropane, in which formylcyclopropane is hydrogenated over copper chromite, zinc chromite and/or copper/zinc catalysts. The process may be batchwise or continuous.