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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:
Feb. 05, 1991
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ; C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
568435 ; 568426 ;
Abstract
Phenylacetaldehydes of the general formula I ##STR1## where each of R.sup.1 to R.sup.5 is independently of the others hydrogen, halogen, unsubstituted or halogen-substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxyl, alkylthio or cycloalkyl, are prepared by converting glycidic esters of the general formula II ##STR2## where each of R.sup.1 to R.sup.5 is as defined above and R.sup.6 is tertbutyl or i-propyl, in the presence of zeolites and/or phosphates and/or phosphoric or boric acid on a carrier material and/or acidic metal oxides as catalysts.