Production of n-tertiary-alkylated aromatic secondary monoamines

Claim 1

A PROCESS FOR PRODUCING N-TERTIARY ALKYLATED AROMATIC SECONDARY MONOAMINES WHICH COMPRISES REACTING ONE MOLE PROPORTION OF A CARBOCYCLIC AROMATIC PRIMARY MONOAMINE WITH FROM 1 TO 30 MOLE PROPORTIONS OF A SATURATED TERTIARY ALKYL ALCOHOL CONTAINING FROM 4 TO 8 CARBON ATOMS IN THE PRESENCE OF A CATALYST AT A TEMPERATURE OF FROM 120* TO 220* C., SAID AROMATIC MONOAMINE CONTAINING FROM 6 TO 15 CARBON ATOMS AND POSSESSING OTHER NUCLEAR SUBSTITUENTS WHICH ARE IN POSITIONS OTHER THAN ORTHO TO THE -NH2 GROUP, WHICH SUBSTITUENTS ARE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF A HYDROGEN ATOM, AN ALKYL RADICAL CONTAINING FROM 1 TO 8 CARBON ATOMS, AN ARYL RADICAL CONTAINING FROM 6 TO 9 CARBON ATOMS, A CYCLOALKYL RADICAL CONTAINING FROM 5 TO 6 CARBON ATOMS, A NITRO RADICAL, A HYDROXY RADICAL, A HALOGEN ATOM, A -CO-R RADICAL, A -CO-OR RADICAL AND AN -OR RADICAL WHEREIN EACH R REPRESENTS AN ALKYL RADICAL CONTAINING FROM 1 TO 8 CARBON ATOMS, SAID CATALYST COMPRISES AT LEAST ONE MATERIAL SELECTED FROM AMOUNG THOSE MATERIALS OF THE FOLLOWING SUBGROUPS (A) FROM ABOUT 0.05 TO ABOUT 1.1 MOLE PROPORTIONS OF HC1, HBR AND HI, (B) FROM ABOUT 0.01 TO ABOUT 5% BY WEIGHT BASED ON THE WEIGHT OF THE AROMATIC MONOAMINE OF IODINE, (C) A COMBINATION OF A MATERIAL DEFINED BY SUBGROUP (A) AND THE MATERIAL DEFINED BY SUBGROUP (B), (D) A COMBINATION OF THE MATERIAL AS DEFINED BY SUBGROUP (B) AND FROM ABOUT 0.1 TO ABOUT 4% BY WEIGHT BASED ON THE WEIGHT OF THE AROMATIC MONOAMINE OF SULFURIC ACID, (E) A COMBINATION OF THE MATERIAL DEFINED BY SUBGROUP (B) AND FROM ABOUT 0.1 TO ABOUT 4% BY WEIGHT BASED ON THE WEIGHT OF THE AROMATIC MONOAMINE OF AN OXYACID OF PHOSPHOROUS.