Method for the production of primary long-chain alcohols (US Patent 7718834)

Patent number: 7718834 Kind code: B2 Granted: 2010-05-18 Filed: 2005-06-22 Inventors: Holger Ziehe (Itzehoe, DE)

Abstract

A method for preparing linear long chain fatty alcohols having 20 to 40 carbon atoms by a growth reaction of ethylene on aluminum compounds.

Claims

1. A method for preparing primary long-chain alcohols or mixtures thereof having on average n carbon atoms, n being greater than or equal to 20, in a growth reaction, the method comprising: (a) providing aluminum compounds as starting