Process for the production of metal salts of trifluoromethane sulphonic acid and their use as esterification catalysts

US7728166B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Sasol Solvents Germany GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Peter Finmans · Rheinberg, DE
• Detlef Hoell · Moers, DE
• Hans-Jurgen Vossler · Rheinberg, DE
• Martina Rozek · Kempen, DE
• Michael J. Green
• Rafael Roggenbuck · Gelsenkirchen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 18, 2004
• Grant date: Jun 1, 2010
• Expiry date: Oct 6, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J2531/48
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The subject matter of the invention is a process for the production of metal salts of trifluoromethane sulphonic acid by reacting trifluoromethane sulphonic acid with a metal alcoholate and the use thereof as esterification catalyst and/or transesterification catalyst for the production of hydroxycarboxylic acid esters.