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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:
Mar. 05, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07O / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C07O / ;
Abstract
In a process for purifying crude pyrrolidine to give a pyrrolidine composition comprising more than 99% (m/m) of pyrrolidine and less than 0.3% (m/m) of water, crude pyrrolidine comprising from 40 to 98% (m/m) of pyrrolidine and having a water content of more than 2% (m/m) is subjected to continuous distillation at a pressure at the top of less than 950 hPa in a column having a stripping section and a rectifying section.