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US 2019/0100482 A1Published application
Process for oxidation of alcohols using oxygen-containing gases
AssigneeRhodia Operations
InventorsWenjuan ZHOU, Wenhao FANG, Armin T. LIEBENS
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Abstract
The present invention concerns a process of oxidizing an alcohol for the production of its corresponding carbonyl compounds wherein the oxidation is performed with oxygen or gases containing oxygen in the presence of a catalyst comprising at least a gold compound and a copper compound. Said alcohol oxidation by gaseous oxidant can achieve a high yield and selectivity with minimized degradation products or waste organic solvents.
Claims10
1-14. (canceled)
A composition comprising an alcohol of formula (I)
- R—OH (I)
- wherein R represents a saturated or unsaturated, linear, branched or cyclic C7-C50 hydrocarbon group which optionally comprises a heteroatom and which optionally comprises a substituent, and a catalyst comprising at least a gold compound and a copper compound.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.