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Process for producing ethylene glycol and methanol

US4362820A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 29, 1981
Grant dateDec 7, 1982
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Expiry dateJun 29, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02P20/52
  • WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

This invention relates to the manufacture of ethylene glycol, methanol, and derivatives thereof from the reaction of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, by a homogeneous catalytic process using a cobalt-containing compound and an organosilicon compound having least one hydrogen bonded to silicon (--Si--H).

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