Process for the preparation of aldehydes and ketones

US6069282A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Consortium für elektrochemische Industrie GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Elke Fritz-Langhals · Ottobrunn, DE
• Johannes Freudenreich · Munich, DE
• Norbert Hampp · Hersbruck, DE
• Anton Candussio · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 21, 1998
• Grant date: May 30, 2000
• Expiry date: May 21, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C25B3/23
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process for the preparation of vinyl, alkynyl or aryl aldehydes or vinyl, alkynyl or aryl ketones by reaction of vinyl-, alkynyl- or aryl- methanols with the aid of a mediator and an oxidant, wherein the mediator is selected from the group of the aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, heterocyclic or aromatic NO or NOH containing compounds.