Method for producing guerbet alcohol
AssigneeKao Corporation
InventorSatoru ONOZAWA
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Abstract
A method of producing a Guerbet alcohol, including reacting a raw material alcohol having 8 or more and 36 or less carbon atoms, in the presence of a catalyst (A) containing a first component and a second component below, having a molar ratio of the first component with respect to the second component (first component/second component) of 2.9 or less, first component: copper, and second component: one kind selected from the group consisting of elements that are elements belonging to Groups 3 to 12 in the fourth to sixth periods of the periodic table, except copper and nickel.
Claims17
A method of producing a Guerbet alcohol, comprising reacting a raw material alcohol having 8 or more and 36 or less carbon atoms, in the presence of a catalyst (A) containing a first component and a second component below, having a molar ratio of the first component with respect to the second component (first component/second component) of 2.9 or less:
- first component:
- copper, and
- second component:
- zinc.
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A catalyst used for a method of producing a Guerbet alcohol, comprising a first component and a second component below, having a molar ratio of the first component with respect to the second component (first component/second component) of 2.9 or less:
- first component:
- copper, and
- second component:
- zinc.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.