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US 5,491,263 AGranted
Aminoethylation process for production of substituted ethylene diamines
AssigneeThe Dow Chemical Company
InventorsPeter C. Rooney, Michael O. Nutt
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Abstract
A process is disclosed for producing a substituted ethylenediamine, the process comprising reacting an oxazolidinone with a secondary amine or an alkanolamine. The process includes, in one aspect, reacting precursors of the oxazolidinone in situ.
Claims11
A process for preparing a 1,2-ethanediamine in a ring opening reaction of an oxazolidinone, the process comprising
- contacting an oxazolidinone with an aliphatic secondary amine or an aliphatic secondary alkanolamine to effect reaction of the oxazolidinone with the aliphatic secondary amine or aliphatic secondary alkanolamine for a sufficient time to form a 1,2-ethanediamine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.