Patent ID: 6229045
Filing Date: 2001-05-08
Classification: C07C,C07F

Abstract:
A process for the preparation of a salt of an aliphatic carboxylic acid compound that contains nitrogen and optionally contains oxygen and/or phosphorus atoms, which process comprises contacting a primary aliphatic alcohol compound that contains nitrogen and optionally contains oxygen and/or phosphorus atoms with a catalyst, obtained by heating a mixture of metal oxides in a hydrogen atmosphere, comprising, on a contained metals basis, about 20 to about 90 mole percent cobalt, about 8 to about 72 mole percent copper, and about 1 to about 16 mole percent of a third metal selected from cerium, iron, zinc, and zirconium, or mixtures thereof, in an alkaline aqueous medium, in the effective absence of oxygen, and at a temperature of about 120.degree. C. to about 200.degree. C.