Process for the electrochemical synthesis of organic metal compounds
AssigneeStudiengesellschaft Kohle mbH
InventorsWilhelm Eisenbach, Herbert Lehmkuhl, Gunther Wilke
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Process for reacting an H-acidic organic compound, in which the acidic H-atom is bonded to the organic radical by an oxygen or a sulphur atom, e.g. an alcohol, with a metal having a standard potential which is more positive than -1.66 volts and which at most reacts with the H-acidic compound under current-free conditions, e.g. Ni, Co, Fe, Mn, Sb, Cu, or Au. The H-acidic compound or a solution thereof is a polar solvent is made conducting by addition of a soluble salt of chlorine, bromine or iodine, and is electrolysed at a temperature of up to 150.degree.C, using said metal as the anode, for production of the alcoholate.
Claims25
Process for the reaction of an H-acidic organic compound in which the acidic H-atom is bonded by oxygen or sulphur to the organic radical and which has a pK value of up to about 20, with a metal having a standard potential which is more positive than -1.66 volts and which does not or only incompletely reacts with the H-acidic compound under current-free conditions, wherein the H-acidic compound or its solution in polar solvent is made conducting by addition of a soluble salt of at least one of Li, Na, K, Rb and Cs and at least one of chloride, bromide and iodide and is electrolysed at temperatures up to 150.degree.C, using said metal as the anode, and the reaction product of the H acidic compound and the metal anode is recovered.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.