Organic compounds and processes for their manufacture

• Main Authors: HARRY WILLIAM DECKMAN, MICHAEL G MATTURRO, FRANK HERSHKOWITZ, F. J HEALY, RICHARD C. MILLER, ROBERT P REYNOLDS, RAF CAERS, EDMUND JOHN MOZELKESKI, PAUL WILLIAM ALLEN, PHILIPPE LOUIS BUESS, ALLEN DAVID GODWIN, RICHARD HENRY SCHLOSBERG, GABOR KISS, KRIK CHRISTIAN NADLER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 07.08.1996
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES AND WAXES; APPARATUS THEREFOR; CANDLES; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; DETERGENTS; ESSENTIAL OILS; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; FUELS; GENERAL METHODS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; LUBRICANTS; LUBRICATING COMPOSITIONS; METALLURGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PEAT; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PERFUMES; PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; PRODUCING (PRESSING, EXTRACTION), REFINING AND PRESERVINGFATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES (e.g. LANOLIN), FATTY OILS AND WAXES,INCLUDING EXTRACTION FROM WASTE MATERIALS; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING; USE OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES EITHER ALONE OR AS LUBRICATINGINGREDIENTS IN A LUBRICATING COMPOSITION; USE OF INORGANIC OR NON-MACROMOLECULAR ORGANIC SUBSTANCES ASCOMPOUNDING INGREDIENTS

Esters of branched C9 alcohols suitable as plasticizers are formed by esterification of a C9 alcohol produced by the aldol condensation from propanal and a C6 aldehyde and hydrogenation, the propanal optionally having been made from natural gas streams.