Method for producing an amine

US7750189B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Petr Kubanek · Mannheim, DE
• Bram Willem Hoffer · Heidelberg, DE
• Ekkehard Schwab · Neustadt, DE
• Johann-Peter Melder · Schifferstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 4, 2007
• Grant date: Jul 6, 2010
• Expiry date: Jul 4, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J2523/00
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Processes comprising: (i) providing a reactant selected from the group consisting of primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and mixtures thereof; and (ii) reacting the reactant with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary amines, secondary amines and mixtures thereof, in the presence of a catalyst comprising a zirconium dioxide- and nickel-containing catalytically active composition, to form an amine; wherein the catalytically active composition, prior to reduction with hydrogen, comprises oxygen compounds of zirconium, copper, and nickel, and one or more oxygen compounds of silver in an amount of 0.5 to 6% by weight, calculated as AgO.