Method for producing aliphatic alcohols

US6204417A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Rolf Fischer · Heidelberg, DE
• Rolf Pinkos · Bad Dürkheim, DE
• Joachim Wulff-Doring · Bischofswerda, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 15, 1999
• Grant date: Mar 20, 2001
• Expiry date: Nov 15, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J23/89
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

In a process for preparing aliphatic alcohols by hydrogenating aliphatic carboxylic acids or anhydrides or esters thereof or lactones in the presence of a catalyst comprising Pt and Re, in the form of the metal or an oxide in each case, the catalyst further comprises at least one further element from the groups 5 to 12 and 14 and the lanthanides of the Periodic Table of the Elements in the form of the metal or an oxide.