摘要:
A process for making a selectively branched alcohol composition contacting a lower olefin feed comprising linear olefins having at least 3 carbon atoms and a concentration of phosphorous-containing compounds with a sorbent comprising a metal or metal oxide on a support, thereby substantially reducing the concentration of phosphorous-containing compounds and producing a purified lower olefin feed. The purified lower olefin feed is skeletally isomerized and then treated to selectively hydrogenate dienes before hydroformylation to produce selectively branched alcohols.
摘要:
There is provided an alcohol composition obtained by dimerizing an olefin feed comprising C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 linear olefins to obtain C.sub.12 -C.sub.20 olefins, followed by conversion to alcohols, such as by hydroformylation. The composition has an average number of branches ranging from 0.9 to 2.0 per molecule. The linear olefin feed preferably comprises at least 85% of C.sub.6 -C.sub.8 -olefins. The primary alcohol compositions are then converted to anionic or nonionic surfactants, preferably sulfated or oxyalkylated or both. The sulfated compositions are biodegradable and possess good cold water detergency. The process for making the dimerized primary alcohol comprises dimerizing, in the presence of a homogeneous dimerization catalyst under dimerization conditions, an olefin feed comprising C.sub.6 -C.sub.10 olefins and preferably at least 85 weight % of linear olefins based on the weight of the olefin feed, to obtain a C.sub.12 -C.sub.20 ; optionally double bond isomerizing said C.sub.12 -C.sub.20 olefins; and converting the C.sub.12 -C.sub.20 olefins to alcohols, preferably through hydroformylation. The process is preferably a one-step dimerization. The homogenous catalyst comprises a mixture of a nickel carboxylate or a nickel chelate, with an alkyl aluminum halide or an alkyl aluminum alkoxide.
摘要:
The invention provides for a method of making isoalcohols using syngas-to-alcohol catalyst and method of making it. The catalyst is a highly dispersed, alkali promoted, La stabilized, microcrystalline Cu.sub.2 O having a particle size of .ltoreq.6 nm in the presence of an alumina structural promoter, wherein on a mole % alkali free metals-only basis Cu is present in from 45 to 55%, Zn from 10 to 20%, Al from 10 to 25%, La from 5 to 15%, and wherein the alkali is from 0.01 to 0.91% K and from 3 to 6.5% Cs. The method of making it involves coprecipitation at a constant pH from a solution of soluble metal salts of copper, zinc, lanthanum and aluminum with an alkali hydroxide, washing the coprecipitate in the essential absence of CO.sub.2, drying and calcining it, then contacting it with K and Cs to form the promoted catalyst. The promoted catalyst is dried and recalcining to produce a catalyst precursor with highly dispersed CuO crystallites. The catalyst is activated in flowing hydrogen.
摘要:
1,3-Propanediol is prepared in a process comprising the steps of:contacting, in an essentially non-water-miscible organic solvent, ethylene oxide with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalytic amount of a non-phosphine-ligated cobalt compound and an effective amount of a lipophilic quaternary phosphonium salt promoter at a temperature within the range of about 50.degree. to about 100.degree. C. and a pressure within the range of about 500 to about 5000 psig, to produce an intermediate product mixture comprising less than 15 wt % 3-hydroxypropanal;adding an aqueous liquid to said intermediate product mixture and extracting into said aqueous liquid a major portion of the 3-hydroxypropanal at a temperature less than about 100.degree. C. to provide an aqueous phase comprising 3-hydroxypropanal in greater concentration than the concentration of 3-hydroxypropanal in the intermediate product mixture, and an organic phase comprising at least a portion of the cobalt compound and at least a portion of the lipophilic quaternary phosphonium salt;contacting the aqueous phase comprising 3-hydroxypropanal with hydrogen in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst at a pressure of at least about 100 psig and a temperature during at least a portion of the hydrogenation step of at least 40.degree. C. to provide a hydrogenation product mixture comprising 1,3-propanediol.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a process for the synthesis of "oxo" products or their derivatives consisting of hydrocarbon compounds containing carbonyl and/or hydroxyl groups, characterized in that a hydrocarbon substrate containing an unsaturation, such as an alkene, is reacted with reactants consisting of a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, the reaction taking place after bringing the substrate into contact with the neutral activated species of the mixture of reactants activated to the plasma state.In particular, the present invention relates to a process characterized in that an alkene is reacted to obtain a mixture containing the aldehyde and the alcohol resulting from the fixation on the double bond of the alkene of, respectively, a group ##STR1## or its group ##STR2## obtained by reduction, or only one of these two components by separating it from the mixture.Finally, the present invention also relates to installations comprising a plasma reactor, in particular of the point-plane corona discharge type or of the high-frequency type, with an apparatus for chilling by a fluidized bed, usable in the process.
摘要:
The higher alcohol yield of a hydroformylation process comprising catalytic hydroformylation of olefinic feedstock and hydrogenation of the crude product is improved by separating light materials and desired alcohols from the hydrogenated product, and then subjecting the remaining heavy materials to catalytic steam cracking at 260.degree.-380.degree. C. The fraction of the cracked product which is rich in alcohol/aldehyde is then separated and recycled, preferably to the hydrogenation stage.
摘要:
A catalyst and process for making same which is used for hydroformylation reactions by the conversion of an olifically unsaturated compound. The catalyst is prepared by the phosphochlorination of the polymer carrier in the presence of borontrifluoride or a borontrifluoride complex. The chlorophosphonyl groups are converted into phosphine or phosphite groups and the resultant groups are reacted with a catalytically active metal complex.
摘要:
An improved process for continuously producing oxygen-containing compounds by the oxo process from olefins, carbon monoxide and hydrogen at a pressure of 5 to 1000 bar and at a temperature of 50.degree. to 200.degree. C. in the presence of a metal of Group VIII and/or a compound thereof as catalyst is disclosed. According to the invention, the unreacted olefin carbon monoxide and hydrogen is passed to a high pressure reactor wherein unreacted olefin is reacted under oxo process conditions to form oxygen-containing compounds.
摘要:
The present invention includes compounds useful as intermediates in the preparation of macrolactams, methods for preparing the intermediates, and methods for preparing macrolactams. One use of the methods and intermediates described herein is in the production of macrolactam compounds able to inhibit HCV NS3 protease activity. HCV NS3 inhibitory compounds have therapeutic and research applications.
摘要:
Novel mixtures of long-chain (C10-C20) olefins are functionalized by conversion to aldehydes using an OXO process, or to sulfates, sulfonates, sulfones, sulfides, or sulfoxides by direct sulfonation. The aldehydes may then be hydrogenated to form alcohols, or aminated to form amines or amides. The olefins starting mixture may be acquired as a byproduct of the tetramerization of ethylene in the presence of certain chromium-containing tetramerization catalysts. The functionalized mixtures, and derivatives prepared therefrom such as alkoxylates prepared from the alcohols, may be useful as surfactants that may offer improved performance in many applications, while their preparation based on a byproduct mixture reduces their cost and also reduces waste-handling issues for this non-targeted stream.