Abstract: A process for preparing diols or triols made up of a1) reacting at least one monoolefin having 4 to 20 carbon atoms with hydrogen peroxide and formic acid in the presence of water to form a mixture or a2) reacting at least one monoolefin alcohol having 4 to 20 carbon atoms first with formic acid, and then reacting the product formed thereby with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of water to form a mixture, b) removing, by distillation, the water and formic acid from the mixture obtained in a1) or a2), c) reacting the mixture obtained from b) with an aliphatic alcohol in the presence of a sulfonic acid to form the diol or triol and at least one formic ester by-product, and d) optionally removing, by distillation, the at least one formic ester by-product formed together with any residual at least one aliphatic C1-C4-alcohol to isolate the diol or triol.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing alkyl chlorides by reacting alcohols with gaseous hydrogen chloride in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the catalyst comprises at least one compound of the structure: wherein R1 is a linear alkyl group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R2, R3, and R4 is selected from a hydrogen, an alkyl, an alkenyl, an aralkyl or an alkylaryl group from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, wherein the substituents of R2, R3, and R4 are all identical, are all different or two of the substituents of R2, R3, and R4 type are identical.

Abstract: A process for preparing 4-substituted 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-N-oxy compounds (II) or mixtures of (II) and 4-substituted 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-N-hydroxy compounds (III) where X+Y can be O or can represent a cyclic ketal with the radicals or can represent an open-chain ketal in which X?O—R and Y?O—R?, where R and R? can be identical or different and can each be CH3, CH2—CH3, CH2—CH2—CH3, CH(CH3)—CH3, CH2—CH2—CH2—CH3 and CH2—CH(CH3)—CH3, by oxidizing corresponding 4-substituted 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidines (I) with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of alkali metal hydrogencarbonate and/or ammonium hydrogencarbonate and in the presence or absence of a solvent, in which the reaction is carried out with the addition of Brönsted acids which have an acid strength greater than that of the hydrogencarbonate.