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Hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds

US6787677B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

BASF SE

Inventors

Michael Koch · Speyer, DE
Steffen Maas · Bubenheim, DE
Wolfgang Jürgen Pöpel · Darmstadt, DE
Matthias Dernbach · Eppelheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 29, 2003
Grant date	Sep 7, 2004
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 29, 2023

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB01J37/031
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

In a process for the catalytic hydrogenation of a carbonyl compound or a mixture of two or more carbonyl compounds in the presence of catalyst tablets which comprise an inorganic, TiO2-containing support and, as active component, copper or a mixture of copper with at least one metal selected from the group consisting of zinc, aluminum, cerium, nobel metals and metals of transition group VIII and whose copper surface area is not more than 10 m2/g, the diameter d and/or the height h of the tablets is less than 3 mm.

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