Process for the preparation of methoxyacetic acid esters

US6143920A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Huels Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Kleemiss · Haltern, DE
• Klaus-Dieter Steffen · Hennef (Sieg), DE
• Marcel Feld · Cologne, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 27, 1998
• Grant date: Nov 7, 2000
• Expiry date: Oct 27, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C67/31
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a process for the preparation of methoxyacetic acid esters in which a chloroacetic acid ester is reacted with an alkali metal methoxide to give the methoxyacetic acid ester.