Method for producing aldehydes by means of hydroformylation of olefinically unsaturated compounds, said hydroformylation being catalyzed by unmodified metal complexes in the presence of cyclic carbonic acid esters

US7193116B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• OXENO OLEFINCHEMIE GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Oliver Moeller · Recklinghausen, DE
• Klaus-Diether Wiese · Haltern am See, DE
• Dieter Hess · Marl, DE
• Cornelia Borgmann · Frankfurt, DE
• Alfred Kaizik · Marl, DE
• Dirk Fridag · Haltern am See, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 7, 2003
• Grant date: Mar 20, 2007
• Expiry date: Aug 7, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/584
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to a process for preparing aldehydes by hydroformylation catalyzed by metals of groups 8 to 10 of the Periodic Table of the Elements in the presence of cyclic carbonic esters.