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US 2013/0158321 A1Published application
Process for the production of octenes by dimerizing ethylene to form butenes and dimerizing the butenes to form octenes
AssigneeIfp Energies Nouvelles
InventorsHelene OLIVIER-BOURBIGOU, Francois HUGUES, Lionel MAGNA, Pierre-Alain BREUIL
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Abstract
The present invention describes a process for the production of octenes from ethylene by dimerizing ethylene to butenes and by dimerizing butenes to octenes.
Claims15
A process for the production of octenes starting from ethylene, employing the following steps:
- a) dimerizing ethylene to butenes in the presence of a catalyst;
- b) dimerizing the butenes obtained in step a) to octenes in the presence of a catalyst.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.