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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 04, 1999
Boyapati Manoranjan Choudary, Pradesh, IN;
Veldurthy Bhaskar, Pradesh, IN;
Mannepalli Lakshmi Kantam, Pradesh, IN;
Kottapalli Koteswara Rao, Pradesh, IN;
Kondapuram Vijaya Raghavan, Pradesh, IN;
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, IN;
Abstract
The present invention provides a novel single step process for the production of amides from amines comprising reaction of amines with an acylating agent comprising of a carboxylic acid in a molar ratio of 1:3 to 1:10 in the presence of reusable natural montmorillonite/metal ion-exchanged clay catalysts, in a suitable solvent medium at a temperature in the range of 30-160° C. for a period of 0.02 to 6 hrs, and recovering the corresponding amides by a conventional simple work-up procedure.