Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a C13-alcohol mixture which is suitable, in particular, as precursor for the preparation of compounds having surfactant properties and of plasticizers.

Abstract: The invention relates to the hydrogenation of aromatic compounds, in particular the preparation of alicyclic polycarboxylic acids or esters of these, via ring hydrogenation of the corresponding aromatic polycarboxylic acids or esters of these, and also to catalysts suitable for this purpose.

Abstract: A method for the continuous preparation of an alicyclic carboxylic acid or an ester of the alicyclic carboxylic acid. A plastic which incorporates the alicyclic carboxylic acid or an ester of the alicyclic carboxylic acid. An article made of a plastic which incorporates the alicyclic carboxylic acid or an ester of the alicyclic carboxylic acid. A liquid which incorporates the alicycic carboxylic acid or an ester of the alicyclic carboxylic acid.

Abstract: The invention relates to the hydrogenation of aromatic compounds, in particular the preparation of alicyclic polycarboxylic acids or their esters by core hydrogenation of the corresponding aromatic polycarboxylic acids or their esters, and also to catalysts suitable therefor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing tert-butanol (TBA) by reacting an isobutene-containing hydrocarbon mixture with water over a solid acid catalyst in a reactor cascade, wherein at least one reactor is supplied alternately with two different isobutene-containing hydrocarbon mixtures, of which one has both a higher tert-butanol content and a higher water content than the other mixture.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing high-purity diisobutene by reaction of isobutene or isobutene-containing hydrocarbon mixtures over a solid acidic ion-exchange resin containing sulfonic acid groups whose protons have been partly replaced by metal ions and to the use of the diisobutene.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing tert-butanol (TBA) by reacting an isobutene-containing hydrocarbon mixture with water over a solid acid catalyst in a reactor cascade, wherein at least one reactor is supplied alternately with two different isobutene-containing hydrocarbon mixtures, of which one has both a higher tert-butanol content and a higher water content than the other mixture.

Abstract: A reactor, which is capable of accommodating a reaction in which at least three phases are present and at least one gaseous starting material and at least one liquid starting material are reacted in cocurrent over a fixed-bed catalyst to give one or more product(s), contains at least one first zone in which a catalyst is present as a fixed bed; and at least one second zone whose size corresponds to a reactor cross section and which is separated from the at least one first zone by a distributor plate provided with at least one hole and in which at least one liquid and at least one gaseous starting material enter the reactor. The distributor plate is provided with at least one static mixer which is located in the at least one hole on at least one side of the distributor plate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing anhydrous TBA from TBA/water mixtures.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a C13-alcohol mixture which is suitable, in particular, as precursor for the preparation of compounds having surfactant properties and of plasticizers.

Abstract: Process for carrying out catalytic multiphase reactions in a tubular reactor, in which at least three reactants are present in three different phases, wherein the process is carried out in at least one tubular reactor, and the catalyst is present in a continuous phase, at least one reactant is present in this continuous phase, and at least two reactants are present dispersed in the continuous phase and the loading factor B of the tubular reactor is equal to or greater than 0.2. In particular, the multiphase reaction is a hydrocarboxylation of at least one olefin to a carboxylic acid.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing full esters of alicyclic polycarboxylic acids from partial esters of aromatic polycarboxylic acids by hydrogenation of the partial ester followed by esterification of this compound.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the preparation of alicyclic polycarboxylic esters by ring-hydrogenation of the corresponding aromatic polycarboxylic esters on a catalyst which comprises at least one metal from the triad iron, cobalt, nickel, and at least one metal of the IInd, IIIrd, IVth, Vth, and/or VIth transition group of the Periodic Table. An alicyclic carboxylic ester mixture with a proportion above 10 mol % of the trans isomers. The use of the alicyclic polycarboxylic ester mixtures. Mixtures made from plastics and from alicyclic polycarboxylic ester mixtures.

Abstract: Isobutene is prepared by dissociating tert-butanol into isobutene and water over an acid ion-exchange resin arranged as a fixed bed in at least one reactor at a temperature of from 80 to 150° C. and at a pressure of from 5 to 25 bar to obtain a reaction mixture, separating the reaction mixture into isobutene, a by-product, water and at least one mixture of undissociated tert-butanol and water. The reactor is operated pseudo-isothermally, with a temperature difference between inflowing and outflowing streams of less than 15 K.

Abstract: Mixture of isomeric dialkyl phthalates, where the viscosity of the mixture is controlled via the composition of the isomerically pure alcohols from which the phthalic ester mixture can be prepared.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing tert-butanol by reaction of a homogeneous mixture comprising water, tert-butanol and an isobutene-containing hydrocarbon mixture over an acidic ion-exchange resin at from 30 to 120° C., wherein the homogeneous mixture contains, at a proportion by mass of isobutene of above 10%, from 30 to 80% of the maximum amount of water made possible by the solubility of water in the mixture of tert-butanol and the isobutene-containing hydrocarbon mixture.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing high-purity diisobutene by reaction of isobutene or isobutene-containing hydrocarbon mixtures over a solid acidic ion-exchange resin containing sulfonic acid groups whose protons have been partly replaced by metal ions and to the use of the diisobutene.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process, which includes: in a homogeneous liquid phase including water, and over a fixed-bed catalyst, continuously hydrogenating at least one hydroformylation product obtained from a hydroformylation of one or more C4-16 olefins to produce at least one output mixture; wherein the fixed-bed catalyst includes at least one element of transition group eight of the Periodic Table of the Elements; wherein the output mixture includes at least one corresponding alcohol and from 0.05 to 10% by weight of water; and wherein in a steady-state operation of the process, from 3 to 50% more hydrogen is fed to the hydrogenation than is consumed by the hydrogenation.

Abstract: A process for conducting multiphase reactions, especially the preparation of &agr;,&bgr;-unsaturated ketones by condensation of aldehydes with ketones.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process, which includes: