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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2015
Applicant:
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN (US);
Inventor:
Neil Warren Boaz, Kingsport, TN (US);
Assignee:
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 209/48 (2006.01); C07C 213/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 209/48 (2013.01); C07C 213/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
This disclosure describes a low temperature process for the preparation of tertiary amines from nitriles and secondary amines via reductive amination using transfer hydrogenation. The process can use a nitrile and a dialkylamine and proceeds under surprisingly mild conditions using a palladium catalyst and the corresponding dialkylammonium formate as the hydrogen donor, and show a pronounced acceleration in the presence of water.