Compression of ethylenically unsaturated monomers

US5914379A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Heinz Friedrich Sutoris · Bischofswerda, DE
• Alexander Aumuller · Neustadt, DE
• Andreas Koch · Frankenthal (Pfalz), DE
• Andreas Deckers · Flomborn, DE
• Eckard Schauss · Heuchelheim, DE
• Roger Klimesch · Ransbach-Baumbach, DE
• Arend Jouke Kingma · Saint Paul, US
• Wilhelm Weber · Neustadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 16, 1998
• Grant date: Jun 22, 1999
• Expiry date: Oct 16, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C08F210/02
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process for compressing ethylenically unsaturated monomers at a pressure of 200-5000 bar in the absence of a polymerization initiator comprises carrying out compression in the presence of a sterically hindered amine derivative.