Preparation of chemical specialities via pressure and low-pressure syntheses

Pressure syntheses

• Hydrogenation of olefins, aromatic hydrocarbons, aldehydes, ketones, imines, unsaturated acids, cleavage hydrogenation of esters to alcohols
• Amination of alcohols, aldehydes and ketones

Low-pressure syntheses

• Hydrobromination of olefins to 1-bromoalkanes
• Dehydrobromination of α,ω-dibromoalkanes to ω-bromo-1-alkenes
• Cyanoethylation of alcohols, glycols, glycol ethers
• Esterification – preparation of various kinds of esters, mono- to polyesters by esterification and preesterification, respectively
• Condensation reactions of aldehydes and ketones
• Epoxidations of olefins
• Preparation of 1,2-diols
• Alkylation of phenols and their derivatives
• Preparation of unsymmetrical ketones based on olefins and acetone
• Synthesis of acetylenic alcohols and diols
• Preparation of vinyl ethers
• Synthesis of dispersions of synthetic polymers (copolymers and ternary polymers)