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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 1989
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Wolf-Dieter Muller, Hofheim am Taunus, DE;
Assignee:
Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
562 17 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of N-phosphonomethylglycine of the formula I ##STR1## wherein a compound of the formula II or salts and esters thereof ##STR2## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 denote hydroxyl or a hydrolyzable group and R.sub.3 denotes aryl, is reacted in a closed reaction vessel in the presence of a dehydrogenation catalyst and a hydrogenation catalyst with an alkali metal hydroxide or alkaline earth metal hydroxide in water as the solvent and, when the reaction has ended, a mineral acid is added to liberate N-phosponomethylglycine from its salt.