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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 1982
Filed:
May. 19, 1980
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ciba-Geigy AG, Basel, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ; C25B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
204 / ; 204 / ; 204 72 ; 204 75 ; 260352 ; 260364 ;
Abstract
An electrochemical process for the production of benzanthrone by reaction of anthraquinone as, starting material, with glycerol, which process comprises reducing anthraquinone, which may additionally contain electronegative substituents, at the cathode in an electrolytic cell in acid medium, and simultaneously cyclizing the reduced semiquinone form with glycerol to produce the corresponding benzanthrone. The novel process affords numerous advantages compared with chemical reduction methods.