Abstract
Utilization of saturated higher fatty alcohols having more than eighteen carbon atoms is a very important project for fatty oil industry as well as petrochemical industry. Because higher fatty alcohols are produced during Ziegler Process.
The reactions between lower alcohol and amines or ammonia are familiar, but the reactions of higher alcohols are very fewly known. Authors attempted to synthesized fatty amines from higher alcohols and lower amines. The reactions were carried out in autoclaves using Cu-Cr-O catalyst.
Initial hydrogen pressure at about 15kg/cm2 gave good effects for the reaction.
58% methylstearylamine, 24% dimethylstearylamine and 13% distearylmethylamine were obtained after the reaction between stearyl alcohol and methylamine at 300°C.
