METHOD OF PREPARING SURFACE-ACTIVE ALCOHOLS AND SURFACE-ACTIVE ALCOHOLIC ETHERS PRODUCTS OBTAINED BY SAID METHOD AND THEIR USE

摘要

The present invention relates in particular to a process for the preparation of surfactants and surfactant alcohol ethers which are very suitable as surfactants or which are very suitable for the preparation of surfactants. Using an olefin mixture comprising less than 30% by weight of straight chain hexene isomers as the starting material and producing an olefin mixture comprising most of the fractionally branched dodecene by the method using a nickel containing catalyst, To produce a surfactant alcohol, optionally alkoxylated. The present invention also relates to the use of surface-active alcohols and surfactant alcohol ethers for the production of surfactants by glycosidation reactions or polyglycosidation reactions, sulfation reactions or phosphorylation reactions.