Processes for producing an ether
AssigneesDow Global Technologies LLC, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
InventorsDavid W. Flaherty, David G. Barton, Xue Chen, Claudia Eugenia Berdugo-diaz, Jing Luo, Yangsik Yun
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Abstract
A process for producing an ether including treating (a) an ester with (b) hydrogen in the presence of (c) a heterogeneous catalyst to reduce the ester by hydrogenation to form an ether product.
Claims8
A process for producing an ether product by direct selective reduction of an ester comprising treating (a) at least one ester with (b) hydrogen and in the presence of (c) a heterogeneous catalyst to directly and selectively reduce the at least one ester by hydrogenation to form the at least one ether;
- wherein the heterogeneous catalyst comprises a transition metal selected from at least one of palladium, platinum, and nickel, the transition metal supported on a carrier member selected from at least one of a niobium oxide carrier, a tungsten oxide carrier, and a boehmite carrier;
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- wherein the ether product absolute selectivity is greater than 5 percent while the direct ether product selectivity is greater than 85 percent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.