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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2000
William J Bartley, Charleston, WV (US);
Ronald Gary Cook, Hurricane, WV (US);
Kendrick Edward Curry, Hurricane, WV (US);
Stefan Kent Mierau, South Charleston, WV (US);
Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation, Danbury, CT (US);
Abstract
A nickel/rhenium catalyst composition for the reductive amination of lower aliphatic alkane derivatives is described. The catalyst includes from about 2 to about 75 weight percent nickel and has a nickel to rhenium weight percent ratio of from about 1:1 to about 200:1. The nickel and rhenium are supported on an alumina-silica support which contains from about 5 to about 65 weight percent silica and has a BET surface area of from about 30 to about 450 m /g. A process for the reductive amination of lower aliphatic alkane derivatives using such a catalyst composition is also provided.