HETEROGENEOUS CATALAYST COMPRISING A TRANSITION METAL ON A SULFONIC ACID FUNCTIONALIZED SiO2 CARRIER AND THE USE OF SUCH CATALYST IN A PROCESSES FOR PRODUCING AN ETHER
OwnerJing Luo, Xue Chen +4inventors
InventorsJing Luo, Xue Chen, David G. Barton, David W. Flaherty, Claudia Eugenia Berdugo-diaz, 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, wherein the heterogeneous catalyst comprises a transition metal deposited on a sulfonic acid functionalized SiO2 support.
Claims9
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 deposited on a sulfonic acid functionalized SiO2 carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.