Single-stage process for preparing glycol monoethers from olefins

US6740616B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• OXENO OLEFINCHEMIE GMBH · DE

Inventors

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

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 7, 2001
• Grant date: May 25, 2004
• Expiry date: Jul 27, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B01J29/40
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

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.