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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:
May. 14, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ian D Dobson, North Humberside, GB;
Assignee:
BP Chemicals Limited, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ; C07C / ; C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
564474 ; 564153 ; 564159 ; 564160 ; 564192 ; 564197 ; 564198 ; 564199 ; 564215 ; 564224 ; 564399 ; 564401 ; 564402 ; 564478 ; 564479 ; 564480 ;
Abstract
An amine is produced by reacting in the presence of hydrogen at elevated temperature a first reactant which is a compound substantially involatile at the elevated temperature employed and having either one, two or more hydroxyl functions, each of which is independently either a primary or secondary hydroxyl function, with a second reactant which is either ammonia or a primary or a secondary amine in the presence of a reductive amination catalyst wherein the reaction is effected in either a continuously or periodically open system.