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Single-step method for producing glycol monoethers from olefins

US6239315A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

BASF SE

Inventors

Ulrich Müller · Neustadt, DE
Georg Heinrich Grosch · Bad Dürkheim, DE
Andreas Walch · Heidelberg, DE
Norbert Rieber · Mannheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 25, 1999
Grant date	May 29, 2001
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 25, 2019

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB01J29/40
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A process for preparing glycol monoethers from olefins comprises reacting the olefins with an epoxidizing reagent in the simultaneous presence of hydroxyl-containing organic compounds over a mixture of epoxidation catalysts and alkoxylation catalysts.

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