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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2003
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Koch, Speyer, DE;
Steffen Maas, Bubenheim, DE;
Wolfgang Jürgen Pöpel, Darmstadt, DE;
Matthias Dernbach, Dossenheim, DE;
Assignee:
BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 2/704 ; C07C 2/914 ; C07C 3/118 ; B01J 2/370 ; B01J 2/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 2/704 ; C07C 2/914 ; C07C 3/118 ; B01J 2/370 ; B01J 2/300 ;
Abstract
In a process for the catalytic hydrogenation of a carbonyl compound or a mixture of two or more carbonyl compounds in the presence of catalyst tablets which comprise an inorganic, TiO -containing support and, as active component, copper or a mixture of copper with at least one metal selected from the group consisting of zinc, aluminum, cerium, nobel metals and metals of transition group VIII and whose copper surface area is not more than 10 m /g, the diameter d and/or the height h of the tablets is less than 3 mm.