Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

Paul-Christian Fiedler

Thomas Himmler

Hartmuth Buding

Joachim Thormer

Wilfried Nolte

Gotz Blume

Winfried Rosen

Johann Hohn

A new process for the preparation of 1-chloro-2-(1-chloro-cyclopropyl)-3-(2-chloro-phenyl)-propan-2-ol of the formula ##STR1## and/or 2-(1-chloro-cyclopropyl)-2-(2-chloro-benzyl)-oxirane of the formula ##STR2## comprising a) reacting in a first step, 2-chloro-benzyl chloride of the formula ##STR3## with comminuted magnesium in the presence of a mixture of toluene and tetrahydrofuran, in which the ratio of toluene to tetrahydrofuran is between 65:35 and 95:5 parts by weight, at a temperature between 0.degree. C. and 100.degree. C., the ratio of 2-chloro-benzyl chloride to tetrahydrofuran being such that between 1 and 3 moles of tetrahydrofuran are present per mol of 2-chloro-benzyl chloride, and subsequently separating off any magnesium which may still be present, and

Process for the preparation of intermediates

Hydrogenation products of olefinically unsaturated polymers having nitrile groups prepared in the presence of ruthenium catalysts in a solvent comprising a low-molecular ketone and a secondary or tertiary C.sub.3 -C.sub.6 -alcohol by hydrogenation, can be processed to vulcanizates with improved compression set values.

Hydrogenation of unsaturated polymers containing nitrile groups

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