Patents by Inventor Martin Schmidt-Radde
Martin Schmidt-Radde has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 6888006Abstract: A process for working up residues from the preparation of pyrrolidone and/or N-vinylpyrrolidone comprises subjecting the residues to a thermolysis.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2001Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Herbert Helfert, Martin Schmidt-Radde, Gerhard Laqua, Ulrich Eiden, Stephan Scholl, Christoph Übler
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Patent number: 6703511Abstract: The invention describes a process for the isolation of pure N-vinylpyrrolidone from N-vinylpyrrolidone-containing crude products, comprising a single-stage or multistage crystallization process, which comprises passing the mother liquor from the first crystallization stage either to a distillative and/or extractive purification, or returning it to an N-vinylpyrrolidone-containing product stream of the preparation process.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2002Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Bernd Eck, Jörg Heilek, Martin Schmidt-Radde, Herbert Helfert
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Publication number: 20030166947Abstract: The invention describes a process for the isolation of pure N-vinylpyrrolidone from N-vinylpyrrolidone-containing crude products, comprising a single-stage or multistage crystallization process, which comprises passing the mother liquor from the first crystallization stage either to a distillative and/or extractive purification, or returning it to an N-vinylpyrrolidone-containing product stream of the preparation process.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2002Publication date: September 4, 2003Inventors: Bernd Eck, Jorg Heilek, Martin Schmidt-Radde, Herbert Helfert
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Publication number: 20030105338Abstract: A process for working up residues from the preparation of pyrrolidone and/or N-vinylpyrrolidone comprises subjecting the residues to a thermolysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2002Publication date: June 5, 2003Inventors: Herbert Helfert, Martin Schmidt-Radde, Gerhard Laqua, Ulrich Eiden, Stephan Scholl, Christoph Ubler
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Patent number: 6201160Abstract: Alcohols are prepared by the catalytic hydrogenation of the corresponding carbonyl compounds at elevated temperatures and at superatmospheric pressure in the liquid phase by a process in which the catalyst used contains copper on an SiO2-containing carrier in the presence or absence of one or more of the elements magnesium, barium, zinc and chromium.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1996Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Martin Brudermüller, Matthias Irgang, Martin Schmidt-Radde, Franz Merger, Tom Witzel, Detlef Kratz, Eckehard Danz, Arnold Wittwer, Michael Hesse, Manfred Sauerwald, Cristina Freire Erdbrügger
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Patent number: 5948945Abstract: A process for vinylation of an organic acidic-hydrogen compound, which entails reacting an organic acidic-hydrogen compound with acetylene or an acetylene-containing gas under elevated pressure and at elevated temperature in the presence of a base, wherein reactor regions initiating decomposition of acetylene are treated with an effective amount of a chemically inert oil of medium viscosity.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1998Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Rudolf Erich Lorenz, Herbert Helfert, Martin Schmidt-Radde, Hans-Peter Schildberg, Gunter Saladin
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Patent number: 5726321Abstract: Process for carrying out gas/liquid reactions at from (-50.degree.) to 300.degree. C. and from 0.1 to 100 bar by carrying out the reaction in the absence of a continuous gas phase, and, as a special case, a process for the batchwise reaction of acetylene in the liquid phase at from 0.degree. to 300.degree. C. and from 2 to 30 bar, in which acetylene is introduced a) in the absence of a continuous gas phase and b) under isobaric conditions to a degree of saturation of from 5 to 100%.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1996Date of Patent: March 10, 1998Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Klaus Bittins, Marc Heider, Martin Schmidt-Radde, Jochen Kellenbenz, Kurt Josef Wagner, Peter Zehner, Stefan Berg
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Patent number: 5723685Abstract: The preparation of monovinyl ethers of the general formula I ##STR1## in which A stands for a chemical bond or for a methylene or ethylene group, the radicals R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently stand for hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, or aryl groups or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 together form a C.sub.3 -C.sub.5 alkylene bridging member, by the reaction of a diol of the general formula II ##STR2## in which the variables have the above meanings, with acetylene in the presence of a base, in which the reaction is carried out at 150.degree.-250.degree. C. under an acetylene partial pressure of 5-25 bar until 40-80% of the diol has been converted, at which point the reaction is stopped and the monovinyl ether of the formula I is isolated.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1995Date of Patent: March 3, 1998Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Marc Heider, Thomas Ruhl, Herbert Helfert, Martin Schmidt-Radde, Jochem Henkelmann
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Patent number: 5710284Abstract: In a process for purifying N-vinylpyrrolidone by crystallization in a crystallizer, those surfaces of the crystallizer from which crystals grow during the crystallization are covered with an N-vinylpyrrolidone seed layer before the crystallization.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1996Date of Patent: January 20, 1998Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Martin Schmidt-Radde, Herbert Helfert, Bernd Eck, Bernhard Maltry
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Patent number: 5683555Abstract: Reaction mixtures obtained in addition reactions of OH-- or NH-- carrying compounds with acetylene or propyne in the presence of alkali metal alcoholates or alkali metal amides are worked up by distilling off the vaporizable components from the reaction mixture in a thin-film evaporator. Before removal of the vaporizable components from the reaction mixture, a particularly defined polyether is added thereto.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1996Date of Patent: November 4, 1997Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Marc Heider, Michael Karcher, Martin Schmidt-Radde, Albrecht Dams
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Patent number: 5670639Abstract: N-Vinyllactams of the general formula I ##STR1## where n is from 1 to 3, are prepared by a process which comprises reaction of a lactam of the general formula II ##STR2## where n is from 1 to 3, with from 10 to 90 percent by weight of an aqueous alkali metal hydroxide solution with distillation at from 50.degree. to 250.degree. C. and from 1 to 100 mbar and with a residence time of from 0.1 to 5 hours and subsequent reaction with acetylene at from 60.degree. to 250.degree. C. and from 1 to 100 bar.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1996Date of Patent: September 23, 1997Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Martin Schmidt-Radde, Marc Heider, Albrecht Dams, Harald Rust
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Patent number: 5380919Abstract: A process for preparing neopentyl glycol hydroxypivalate by base-catalyzed disproportionation of hydroxypivalaldehyde, wherein the reaction is carried out in the presence of a readily water-soluble alkaline earth metal salt and of an alkali metal hydroxide.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1993Date of Patent: January 10, 1995Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Franz Merger, Martin Schmidt-Radde
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Patent number: 5304685Abstract: A process for preparing 3-(hydroxyphenyl)propionaldehydes of the formula I ##STR1## and, where appropriate, for preparing 3-(hydroxyphenyl)propanols of the formula II ##STR2## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.20 -alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.20 -cycloalkyl, C.sub.4 -C.sub.20 -alkylcycloalkyl, C.sub.4 -C.sub.20 -cycloalkylalkyl or C.sub.5 -C.sub.20 -alkylcycloalkylalkyl,R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are each aryl, C.sub.7 -C.sub.20 -aralkyl, heterocycloalkyl or C.sub.3 -C.sub.20 -heterocycloalkylalkyl, entailsa) reacting phenols of the formula III ##STR3## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 have the abovementioned meanings, with 3-hydroxypropionaldehydes of the formula IV ##STR4## where R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 have the abovementioned meanings, in the presence of a basic catalyst at from 90.degree. to 230.degree. C. and under from 0.01 to 50 bar and, where appropriate,b) treating the resulting 3-(hydroxyphenyl)propionaldehydes of the formula I ##STR5## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1993Date of Patent: April 19, 1994Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Franz Merger, Martin Schmidt-Radde
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Patent number: 5254757Abstract: A process for the preparation of 2,2-bis-hydroxymethyl-butanediol-(1,4) of formula I ##STR1## wherein 4-hydroxybutyraldehyde of formula II ##STR2## and/or 2-hydroxytetrahydrofuran of formula III ##STR3## is/are condensed with formaldehyde in the presence of a basic catalyst and the resulting reaction mixture is then catalytically hydrogenated, and 2,2-bis-hydroxymethyl-butanediol-(1,4) is isolated from the hydrogenation product.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1993Date of Patent: October 19, 1993Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Franz Merger, Martin Schmidt-Radde
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Patent number: 5254752Abstract: The invention provides a process for the preparation of a 4-halobenzyl alcohol of the formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 - to C.sub.20 -alkyl, C.sub.2 - to C.sub.20 -alkoxyalkyl, C.sub.3 - to C.sub.20 -cycloalkyl, or C.sub.4 - to C.sub.30 -cycloalkylalkyl,R.sup.2 is C.sub.1 - to C.sub.20 -alkyl, C.sub.2 - to C.sub.20 -alkoxyalkyl, C.sub.3 - to C.sub.20 -cycloalkyl or C.sub.4 - to C.sub.30 -cycloalkylalkyl,X is halogen andm is 0 to 2,by reacting a haloaromatic carbonyl compound of the formula ##STR2## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2, X and m are as defined above, with hydrogen on a hydrogenation catalyst consisting essentially of copper oxide (I), copper oxide (II) and mixtures thereof in the presence of at least one primary, secondary or tertiary amine selected from the group consisting of acyclic, cyclic and heterocyclic aliphatic amines, in the presence or absence of an inert solvent, at from 50.degree. to 130.degree. C. and at from 10 to 200 bar.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 1992Date of Patent: October 19, 1993Assignee: BASF AktiengesellschaftInventors: Franz Merger, Martin Brudermueller, Martin Schmidt-Radde