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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 1997
Filed:
May. 30, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gerhardt Horn, Oberhausen, DE;
Carl Dieter Frohning, Wesel, DE;
Assignee:
Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft, , DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
564490 ; 564493 ;
Abstract
A process for the catalytic preparation of alcohols or amines by reaction of esters, fatty acids, or nitriles with hydrogen at elevated temperature and pressure. The unreduced catalyst contains, per 100 parts by weight of CuO, 40 to 130 parts by weight of ZnO, 2 to 50 parts by weight of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, and optionally 0.5 to 8 parts by weight of oxide of Mn, Mo, V, Zr, and/or alkaline earth metal. It has a BET total area of 80 to 175 m.sup.2 /g of catalyst in the unreduced state, and 75% to 95% of the BET total area is formed by pores having a radius r.sub.p .ltoreq.15 nm.