Preparation of amines

US6187957A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Gerald Meyer · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Frank Funke · Bischofswerda, DE
• Gerhard Schulz · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Detlef Kratz · Heidelberg, DE
• Marc Walter · Bischofswerda, DE
• Michael Hesse · Westlake Village, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 14, 1999
• Grant date: Feb 13, 2001
• Expiry date: Dec 14, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J35/60
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Amines are prepared by reacting primary or secondary alcohols, aldehydes or ketones with nitrogen compounds selected from the group consisting of ammonia and primary and secondary amines at elevated temperatures and superatmospheric pressures in the presence of hydrogen and of a catalyst containing copper and oxygen-containing compounds of titanium by a process in which the catalyst is used in the form of moldings which have been prepared with the addition of metallic copper powder.