Preparation of alcohols

US6201160A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Martin Brudermuller · Mannheim, DE
• Matthias Irgang · Heidelberg, DE
• Martin Schmidt-Radde · Beindersheim, DE
• Franz Merger · Bischofswerda, DE
• Tom Witzel · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Detlef Kratz · Heidelberg, DE
• Eckehard Danz · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Arnold Wittwer
• Michael Hesse · Westlake Village, US
• Manfred Sauerwald · Meckenheim, DE
• Cristina Freire Erdbrugger · Frankenthal (Pfalz), DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 19, 1996
• Grant date: Mar 13, 2001
• Expiry date: Nov 19, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07C2603/68
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Alcohols are prepared by the catalytic hydrogenation of the corresponding carbonyl compounds at elevated temperatures and at superatmospheric pressure in the liquid phase by a process in which the catalyst used contains copper on an SiO.sub.2 -containing carrier in the presence or absence of one or more of the elements magnesium, barium, zinc and chromium.