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Process for the production of a lower aliphatic alcohol

US4456776A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Deutsche Texaco Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Wilhelm Neier · Rheinberg, DE
Werner Webers · Dinslaken, DE
Wolf J. Ostwald · Rheinberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 13, 1983
Grant date	Jun 26, 1984
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 13, 2003

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC07C29/04
WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A process for continuously producing a lower aliphatic alcohol by the direct hydration of a lower aliphatic olefin having from 3 to 5 carbon atoms in the presence of a strongly acidic cation exchange resin catalyst the improvement which comprises presaturating the olefin feed with from about 0.3 to 1.8 weight percent of water prior to introducing the olefin feed into the reactor.

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