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US 2003/0166985 A1Published application
Selective coupling of terminal olefins with ethylene to manufacture linear alpha-olefins
AssigneeExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
InventorsAbhimayu Onkar Patil, Stephen Zushma, Timothy Daniel Shaffer
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Abstract
A process for producing a linear α-olefin which comprises: reacting a stoichiometric excess of a terminal Cn olefin with ethylene in the presence of an organometallic catalyst to produce a Cn+2 linear α-olefin, wherein the catalyst is capable of producing a Schulz-Flory distribution of the linear α-olefin with a Schulz-Flory constant of less than about 0.8 and wherein n is an integer between about 3 to 20.
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A process for producing a linear α-olefin which comprises:
- reacting a feed comprising a stoichiometric excess of a terminal Cn olefin with ethylene in the presence of an organometallic catalyst to produce a Cn+2 linear α-olefin, wherein said catalyst is capable of producing a Schulz-Flory of less than about 0.8 as observed for ethylene oligomerization and wherein n is an integer between about 3 to 20.
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