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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerhard Darsow, Krefeld, DE;
Assignee:
Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Leverkusen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
536 185 ; 536-41 ; 536 186 ; 536124 ; 536125 ; 568861 ; 568862 ; 568863 ;
Abstract
Epimer-free sugar alcohols can be prepared from the corresponding sugars by catalytic hydrogenation with hydrogen in aqueous solution, the hydrogenation being carried out continuously at a hydrogen pressure of 100 to 400 bar and a reaction temperature of 20 to 70.degree. C. on support-free shaped bodies which are arranged in a fixed bed and are made of pressed powders of metals or alloys of the elements of the iron subgroup of subgroup VIII of the Periodic Table of the Elements together with elements of subgroup IV and/or V. The shaped bodies have a compressive strength of 20 to 220 N and an internal surface area of 10 to 100 m.sup.2 /g.