Abstract: There are produced carboxylic acid cyanides, e.g., acyl cyanides by reacting a carboxylic acid halide with an alkali cyanide or hydrogen cyanide in the presence of a copper (I) salt and a carboxylic acid nitrile. Especially advantageous are glutaric acid dinitrile and 2-methyl glutaric acid dinitrile.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 23, 1981
Date of Patent:
July 13, 1982
Assignee:
Degussa Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Axel Kleemann, Bernd Lehmann, Herbert Klenk
Abstract: A process for producing 5-methylfurfural by reducing 5-chloromethylfurfural which is used as a starting material or to be obtained by decomposing glucides commercially available more cheaply with hydrochloric acid, with hydrogen in an organic solvent in the presence of a palladium catalyst.