Process for the manufacture of vicinal glycols
US3933923A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 7, 1973 |
| Grant date | Jan 20, 1976 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 7, 1993 |
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- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC07C29/106
- WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A process for the manufacture of higher vicinal diols or polyols by hydrolysis of the corresponding mono- or poly-epoxides, characterized in that the hydrolysis is carried out using aqueous solutions of salts of aliphatic mono- and/or polycarboxylic acids and temperatures above 100.degree.C, preferably 200.degree. to 350.degree.C, and if necessary, in the presence of dissolving intermediaries.
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