Phosphite compounds and the metal complexes thereof

US7009068B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• OXENO OLEFINCHEMIE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Reinhard Schmutzler · Wolfenbüttel, DE
• Ion Neda · Braunschweig, DE
• Christine Kunze · Wendeburg, DE
• Armin Börner · Rostock, DE
• Detlef Selent · Berlin, DE
• Cornelia Borgmann · Frankfurt, DE
• Dieter Hess · Marl, DE
• Klaus-Diether Wiese · Haltern am See, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 7, 2002
• Grant date: Mar 7, 2006
• Expiry date: Aug 16, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J2531/845
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Phosphites of the formula I or II and their metal complexes, their preparation and the use of the phosphites as ligands in catalytic reactions, in particular in processes for the hydroformylation of olefins, are described.