Hydroformylation process with improved control over product isomers
US7863487B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 12, 2008 |
| Grant date | Jan 4, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 5, 2028 |
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- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC07C45/50
- WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A continuous hydroformylation process for producing a mixture of aldehydes with improved flexibility and stability of a normal/branched (N/I) isomer ratio of the product aldehydes. The process involves reacting one or more olefinically-unsaturated compounds with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of an organopolyphosphite ligand and an organomonophosphite ligand, at least one of such ligands being bonded to a transition metal to form a transition metal-ligand complex hydroformylation catalyst; the process being conducted at a sub-stoichiometric molar ratio of organopolyphosphite ligand to transition metal, at a super-stoichiometric (>2/1) molar ratio of organomonophosphite ligand to transition metal, and at a carbon monoxide partial pressure in the inverse order region of the hydroformylation rate curve; and controlling and varying the isomer ratio by varying the concentration of organopolyphosphite ligand relative to transition metal.
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