US 7,468,461 B2
	Method for the production of amines
Frederik Van Laar, Limburgerhof (Germany); Ekkehard Schwab, Neustadt (Germany); Steffen Oehlenschlaeger, Ludwigshafen (Germany); Hartwig Voss, Frankenthal (Germany); Wolfgang Mackenroth, Bad Duerkheim (Germany); Konrad Morgenschweis, Dresden (Germany); Ulrich Penzel, Tettau (Germany); and Bernd Weidner, Wormlage (Germany)
Assigned to BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen (Germany)
Filed on Mar. 28, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/57,617.
Application 12/057617 is a division of application No. 10/575924, previously published as PCT/EP2004/011642, filed on Oct. 15, 2004.
Claims priority of application No. 103 49 095 (DE), filed on Oct. 17, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2008/0177111 A1, Jul. 24, 2008
Int. Cl. C07C 209/00 (2006.01); B01J 23/89 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 564—423  [502/185]

14 Claims

1. A process comprising hydrogenating an aromatic nitro compound to the corresponding amine in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst comprising nickel and platinum, wherein said nickel and platinum are present on a support in the form of an alloy having an atomic ratio of nickel to platinum in the alloy of 30:70 to 70:30.