Process for preparing pyrrolidine (US Patent 9315479)

Patent number: 9315479 Kind code: B2 Granted: 2016-04-19 Filed: 2013-07-12 Inventors: Roland Bou Chedid (Mannheim, DE); Johann-Peter Melder (Böhl-Iggelheim, DE); Roman Dostalek (Neuleiningen, DE); Jörg Pastre (Bensheim, DE); Aik Meam Tan (Speyer, DE) Assignees: BASF SE (Ludwigshafen, DE)

Abstract

Process for preparing pyrrolidine of the formula I by reacting 1,4-butanediol (BDO) of the formula II with ammonia in the presence of hydrogen and a supported, metal-containing catalyst, wherein the catalytically active mass of the