Process for preparing amines and zirconium dioxide- and nickel-containing catalysts for use therein

US8063252B2 · 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
• Holger Evers · Mannheim, DE
• Till Gerlach · Ludwigshafen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 4, 2007
• Grant date: Nov 22, 2011
• Expiry date: Aug 15, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/582
• 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, nickel and cobalt, and one or more oxygen compounds of one or more metals selected from the group consisting of Pb, Bi, Sn, Sb and In.