Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Otto Woerz

Axel Nissen

Werner Fliege

Gerd Heilen

Gerd Kaibel

Hardo Siegel

Wilhelm Ruppel

Klaus Halbritter

Werner Aquila

Walter Rebafka

Christian Dudeck

Hartwig Fuchs

Bernd Meissner

Karl Siegfried Brenner

Arnold Wittwer

Lothar Arnold

Hans J Pander

Hans-Juergen Scheiper

Manfred Braun

Hans Diehm

Abstract of the disclosure: A process for the continuous preparation of 3-cyano-3,5,5-trimethylcyclohexanone by base-catalyzed reaction of isophorone and hydrogen cyanide, comprises carrying out the reaction in two separate reaction zones

Continuous preparation of 3-cyano-3,5,5-trimethylcyclohexanone

In a tube bundle reactor for carrying out catalytic organic reactions in the gas phase, comprising reaction tubes (A) arranged between tubesheets (B), the reaction tubes have an inside diameter ranging from 0.5 to 3 cm, the ratio of reaction tube length to inside diameter ranges from 2 to 10, and the reaction tubes (A) are surrounded by a fluid heat transport medium flowing in the crosswise direction; said tube bundle reactor is useful in particular in exothermic organic reactions.

Tube bundle reactor, use thereof in exothermic organic reactions, and

An improved process for the preparation of higher unsaturated ketones, such as geranylacetone and farnesylacetone, by reacting a .beta.,.gamma.-unsaturated alcohol and an alkyl acetoacetate at an elevated temperature in the presence of an organic aluminum compound, with elimination, and removal, of the alcohol derived from the alkyl acetoacetate in a reactor system carrying a fractionating column. The improvement in the purity, yield, and especially space-time yield of the product is achieved by starting from an alcohol having a higher boiling point than that of the alkyl acetoacetate used, carrying out the reaction in the presence of a small amount of an inert liquid which has a boiling point between that of the alkyl acetoacetate and the alcohol to be eliminated therefrom, and ensuring that the temperature at the bottom of the fractionating column is only slightly higher than the boiling point of the added liquid, under the prevailing pressure.

Preparation of higher unsaturated ketones

Aliphatic carbonyl compounds are prepared by an aldol condensation of carbonyl compounds R.sup.1 --CH.sub.2 --CO--R.sup.2 (I; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 =H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl) in the presence of hydrogen and of a catalyst which has both condensing and hydrogenating properties, by using a catalyst system wherein the active components are from 1 to 90 percent by weight of a noble metal of group VIII of the periodic table and from 10 to 99 percent by weight of an oxide or salt of a rare earth metal, or of a mixture of different oxides and/or salts of rare earth metals.

Preparation of aliphatic carbonyl compounds

3-Methyl-2-buten-1-al is prepared by isomerizing 3-methyl-3-buten-1-al in the presence of acidic or basic compounds. The product is a starting material for the manufacture of dyes, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, plastics and scents.

Preparation of 3-methyl-2-buten-1-al

A process for the manufacture of higher ketones by reacting an aldehyde with a ketone in the presence of hydrogen over a catalyst system which contains, firstly, oxides or salts of the rare earth metals and, secondly, metals of group VIII of the periodic table of the elements. The process gives numerous higher ketones, required, for example, as solvents for surface coatings, or as scents, with high conversions and good selectivities, and therefore more simply and more economically than conventional methods.

Manufacture of higher ketones

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Otto Woerz