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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 1992
Filed:
Aug. 09, 1990
BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Abstract
Vinyl ethers of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are identical to or different from one another, each being hydrogen, straight-chain or branched alkyl or alkenyl of up to 12 carbon atoms, cycloalkyl or cycloalkylene of from 5 to 8 carbon atoms, aryl, alkylaryl, alkenylaryl, aralkyl and aralkenyl of from 6 to 16 carbon atoms, halogen-substituted aryl or heterocyclyl, and in addition the radicals R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 or R.sup.1 and R.sup.3, together with the carbon atom to which they are bonded, can form a cycloalkane, cycloalkene or a heterocycle, and R.sup.4 is alkyl, alkylaryl or aralkyl, are prepared by eliminating an alcohol from an acetal/ketal of the formula ##STR2## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each as defined above, in the presence of a phosphate of zeolite structure and/or a precipitated phosphate of the elements B, Zr, Ce or Fe and/or phosphoric acid or boric acid on carrier material and/or acidic undoped metal oxide as catalyst, the reaction being preferably carried out in the gas phase.