Procedimiento para la preparación de alcoholes de Guerbet

Procedimiento para la dimerización de alcoholes en el sentido de una reacción de Guerbet, en el que se hace reaccionar 3-metilbutan-1-ol como monoalcohol (A), en presencia de (a) una base (B), (b) un compuesto de carbonilo (C) y (c) de paladio como catalizador de hidrogenación (H), debiendo estar presente el metal en forma elemental. Dimerization of alcohol (by Guerbet reaction) comprises converting one or more alcohols having 2-72C and 1-3 hydroxyl groups per molecule in the presence of a base, a carbonyl compound and a hydrogenation catalyst (including metals such as ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium and platinum, where the metal is present in the elementary form), provided that alcohol has at least one primary or secondary hydroxyl group and the carbon atom is directly adjacent to the primary or secondary hydroxyl groups of one carbon atom that carries at least one hydrogen atom as substituent.