Working up a mixture comprising alkene and oxygen

US6712942B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Joaquim Henrique Teles · Waldsee, DE
• Alwin Rehfinger · Mutterstadt, DE
• Peter Bassler · Viernheim, DE
• Norbert Rieber · Mannheim, DE
• Werner Hefner · Lampertheim, DE
• Anne Wenzel · Graben-Neudorf, DE
• Peter Rudolf · Ludwigshafen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 12, 2002
• Grant date: Mar 30, 2004
• Expiry date: Oct 22, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/582
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A mixture (M1) comprising an alkene and oxygen is worked up by a process in which (i) oxygen is removed from the mixture (M1) by a nondistillative method to give a mixture (M2) and (ii) the alkene is separated off from the mixture (M2) by distillation.