Process for simultaneously preparing caprolactam and hexamethylene diamine

US6147208A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Gunther Achhammer · Mannheim, DE
• Peter Bassler · Viernheim, DE
• Rolf Fischer · Heidelberg, DE
• Eberhard Fuchs · Bischofswerda, DE
• Hermann Luyken · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Werner Schnurr · Herxheim, DE
• Guido Voit · Freinsheim, DE
• Lutz Hilprecht · Ludwigshafen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 16, 1998
• Grant date: Nov 14, 2000
• Expiry date: Jun 16, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/52
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Caprolactam and hexamethylenediamine are prepared simultaneously starting from adiponitrile.