Patent ID: 7098357

Claim:
A process for dehydration of an organic compound to obtain the corresponding unsaturated compound said process comprising: mixing at least one organic compound in liquid or dissolved form with at least one dehydrating reagent in liquid or dissolved form in at least one microreactor, and reacting said at least one organic compound and said at least one dehydrating reagent therein for a sufficient time to obtain the corresponding unsaturated compound, and optionally isolating the corresponding unsaturated compound from the reaction mixture, wherein said at least one organic compounds is selected from aliphatic alcohols, aromatic alcohols, heteroaromatic alcohols, aliphatic amides, aromatic amides, heteroaromatic amides, aliphatic aldoximes, aromatic aldoximes, and heteroaromatic aldoximes, and said at least one dehydrating agent is selected from acids, acid anhydrides, acid halides, carbodiimides and cyanoformates.