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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:
Apr. 09, 1985
Filed:
Dec. 07, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ciba Geigy Ag, Basle, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
260508 ; 260509 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to an improved process for the production of 2-amino-1-naphthalenesulfonic acid (Tobias acid). This improved process makes it possible to obtain Tobias acid which has only a very low content of 2-aminonaphthalene and in high space-time yield. The process starts from 2-hydroxynaphthalene and comprises the following main reaction steps: