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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2002
Gunnar Heydrich, Limburgerhof, DE;
Nicola Christiane Aust, Mannheim, DE;
Hermann Pütter, Neustadt, DE;
Andreas Fischer, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Jörg Botzem, Limburgerhof, DE;
BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen/Rh., DE;
Abstract
A process is described for preparing diacetals of glyoxal by reacting from 40 to 75% by weight aqueous glyoxal with monohydric alcohols in the presence of an acid catalyst, which comprises leaving a liquid mixture which, at the beginning of the reaction, comprises alcohol and glyoxal in a molar ratio of at least 15:1 and also water in a concentration of not more than 8% by weight in contact with the acid catalyst until concentration in the reaction mixture of the diacetal formed reaches at least 70% of the equilibrium concentration without more than 5% by weight of the alcohol used having already been distilled off.