Badische Anilin- & Soda-fabrik Aktiengesellschaft

Horst Pommer

Roman Fischer

Lothar Arnold

Heinrich Pasedach

Werner Reif

A process for the production of 2,3,6-trimethylphenol in which diethyl ketone is reacted in the presence of a basic reagent with crotonaldehyde or methyl vinyl ketone (or a compound which in the presence of a basic reagent is converted into crotonaldehyde or methyl vinyl ketone) and the 2,5,6-trimethyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one or 2,3,6-trimethyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one formed is dehydrogenated.

Production of 2,3,6-trimethylphenol

A process for the production of 2-methyl-4-halobut-2-en-1-als by reacting 2-methylbut-3-en-1-al-2-ol or an acetal or acylate thereof at a temperature of from -10.degree.C to +100.degree.C in the presence of copper or a copper salt with the appropriate hydrogen halides.

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Ludwigshafen, Germany

Horst Pommer