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Basf Akteingesellschaft

Michael Roeper

Werner Bertleff

Dieter Koeffer

Peter M Lorz

Franz Merger

Juergen Gert Tropsch

Heinz-Josef Kneuper

Heiko Maas

Rolf Hartmuth Fischer

Knut Oppenlaender

Rocco Paciello

Rudolf Kummer

Thomas Heidemann

Bernd Lothar Marczinke

Markus Schubert

Peter Schwab

Marc Walter

Michael Schulz

Roger G Klimesch

Lothar Franz

Thomas Hill

Juergen Mohr

Ralf Schulz

Juergen Thomas

Uwe Vagt

Peter Schreyer

Juergen Frank

Frank Poplow

Thomas Narbeshuber

Robert Maerkl

Alfred Thome

Hans-Ulrich Jaeger

Hans-Joachim Mueller

Armin Volker Grenacher

Michael Triller

Wolfgang Guenther

Juergen Stephan

Joerg Liebe

Edgar Hahl

Andreas Brodhagen

The present invention relates to a process for preparing polyol alkyl ethers by reacting compounds comprising at least three hydroxyl functionalities with olefins in the presence of acidic catalysts at temperatures of from 20 to 250&#xb0; C. and pressures of from 0.5 to 10 bar, wherein the olefins correspond to the general formula (I) in which Ris hydrogen and Ris a linear or branched carbon radical having from 7 to 28 carbon atoms, or Rand Rare each linear or branched carbon radicals having from 1 to 27 carbon atoms, the sum of the carbon number of Rand Rbeing at most 28, to polyol alkyl ethers derived from compounds having at least three hydroxyl functionalities, not more than all but one hydroxyl functionality being replaced by a moiety of the general formula (VIII) to the use of these polyol alkyl ethers as surfactants and to laundry detergents and cleaning compositions comprising these polyol alkyl ethers.

Production of (co)surfactants by reacting polyols with olefins

The invention describes a process for the preparation of novel surfactant alcohols and surfactant alcohol ethers by derivatization of olefins having from about 10 to 20 carbon atoms or of mixtures of such olefins to give alkanols, and optional subsequent alkoxylation, which comprises subjecting a C-olefin mixture to metathesis, dimerizing the resulting olefins, and then derivatizing them to give surfactant alcohols, and optionally alkoxylating said alcohols. The olefin mixture obtained in the dimerization has a high proportion of branched components and less than 10% by weight of compounds which contain a vinylidene group. invention further describes the use of the surfactant alcohols and surfactant alcohol ethers to give surfactants by glycosylation or polyglycosylation, sulfation or phosphation.

Process for the preparation of surfactant alcohols and surfactant alcohol ethers, the prepared products and their use

The invention relates to a process for the preparation of alkylarylsulfonates by

Method for producing alkyl aryl sulphonates

Poly-1-n-alkenylamines, and fuel and lubricant compositions containing

A process for the preparation of aldehydes by hydroformylation of olefins having more than 7 carbon atoms, comprising hydroformylation by means of a rhodium catalyst dissolved homogeneously in the reaction medium, removal of the rhodium catalyst from the hydroformylation reaction product, and recycling of the rhodium separated off from the hydroformylation product into the hydroformylation step, in which the rhodium catalyst is extracted from the hydroformylation product into the aqueous phase by means of an aqueous solution of a nitrogen-containing complexing agent from the group comprising of sulfonated pyridines, sulfonated quinolines, substituted or unsubstituted, sulfonated or sulfonated substituent-carrying 2,2'-bipyridines, 1,10-phenanthrolines, 2,2'-biquinolines, 2,2',6',2'-terpyridines and porphines, and/or from the group comprising of carboxylated pyridines, carboxylated quinolines, substituted or unsubstituted, carboxylated or carboxylated substituent-carrying 2,2'-bipyridines, 1,10-phenanthrolines, 2,2'-biquinolines, 2,2',6',2'-terpyridines and porphines, and the aqueous, rhodium-containing extract is recycled into the hydroformylation step.

Preparation of aldehydes

A process for the catalytic isomerization of secondary .alpha.-alkenols of formula I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 alkyl group or a C.sub.2 -C.sub.2 alkenyl group and in which R.sup.2 stands for hydrogen, a halogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkoxy group, a carbonyl group, or a C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 alkyl group and in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 can be joined together to complete a five-membered or six-membered carbocyclic ring, to primary .alpha.-alkenols of formula II ##STR2## or for the isomerization of primary .alpha.-alkenols of formula II to secondary .alpha.-alkenols of formula I, wherein the isomerization is carried out in the presence of organotrioxorhenium(VII) compounds of formula III ##STR3## in which R.sup.3 is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl group, a cyclopentadienyl group substituted by from one to five C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl groups, an unsubstituted cyclopentadienyl group, a C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 aryl group, or a C.sub.7 -C.sub.11 aralkyl group, or wherein the isomerization is carried out in the presence of organotrioxorhenium(VII) compounds of formula III attached to a polymeric support.

Catalytic isomerization of .alpha.-alkenols

.omega.-Formyl-C.sub.4 -C.sub.20 -alkanecarboxylic esters are prepared by reacting C.sub.4 -C.sub.20 -alkenecarboxylic esters with carbon monoxide and hydrogen at from 30.degree. to 150.degree. C. and under from 0.01 to 30 bar in the presence of rhodium carbonyl complexes which are modified with polyphosphites.

Preparation of .omega.-formylalkanecarboxylic esters

Rhodium hydroformylation catalysts containing bisphosphite ligands of the formula I ##STR1## where -X- is a divalent bisarylene radical or R.sup.1,

Rhodium hydroformylation catalysts containing bisphosphite ligands

Rhodium hydroformylation catalysts containing bisphosphite ligands of the formula I ##STR1## where --X-- is a divalent bisarylene radical or R.sup.1,

Olefinically unsaturated compounds are hydroformylated in an organic reaction medium with the aid of rhodium complex catalysts which are soluble in the reaction medium by performing the reaction in the presence of water-insoluble rhodium complex catalysts and also in the presence of arylthiols of the general formula I

Hydroformylation

Alkanals having a 2-alkyl branch are obtained from mixtures which contain the alkanals having a 2-alkyl branch in addition to n-alkanals, 3-alkylalkanals and/or further isomers by a process in which

Obtaining alkanals having a 2-alkyl branch from alkanal mixtures

Octadienols are prepared by teleomerization of 1,3-butadiene with water in the presence of carbon dioxide and a catalyst system comprising a palladium compound and a tertiary phosphorus compound by performing the reaction in the presence of a strong non-coordinating acid.

Preparation of octadienols

A process for the preparation of carbonyl compounds by catalyzed isomerization of allyl alcohols in a tertiary phosphine or phosphite ester in the presence of a rhodium compound at a temperature of from 80.degree. C. to 180.degree. C., a carrier gas being passed through the reaction mixture and the carbonyl compound being separated from the emergent gas mixture by cooling.

Preparation of carbonyl compounds by isomerization of allyl alcohols

.omega.-Formylalkanecarboxylic esters are prepared by hydroformylation of an alkenecarboxylic ester with carbon monoxide and hydrogen at elevated tempertures and under superatmospheric pressure in the presence of a cobalt carbonyl complex by a process in which an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated alkenecarboxylic ester is hydroformylated in the presence of from 0.01 to 1 mol %, calculated as cobalt, of a cobalt carbonyl complex, while maintaining a conversion of from 10 to 70% of .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated alkenecarboxylic esters.

Preparation of omega-formylalkanecarboxylic esters

2(5H)-furanones I ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl, C.sub.5 - or C.sub.6 -cycloalkyl, C.sub.7 -C.sub.12 -aralkyl or aryl, are prepared by heating a 3-formylcarboxylate or 3-formylcarboxylic acid II ##STR2## where R.sup.3 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 -alkyl, C.sub.5 - or C.sub.6 -cycloalkyl, C.sub.7 -C.sub.12 -aralkyl or aryl, to 100.degree.-450.degree. C. in the presence of an acidic catalyst.

Preparation of 2(5H)-furanones

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