Patent · US Expired

Production of alcohol

US4072720A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 5, 1973
Grant dateFeb 7, 1978
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Expiry dateNov 5, 1993

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB01J2531/845
  • WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

This specification discloses a process for the production of an alcohol by reacting an aldehyde or an acetal with hydrogen in the presence of carbon monoxide, and as a catalyst, an insoluble polymer containing a functional group, which may be an amine, thiol, phosphine, or arsine group, having chemically bonded thereto a metal of Group VIII of the Periodic Table.

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