Heterogeneous catalyst comprising platinum and ruthenium on a zeolite carrier and the use of such catalyst in a process for producing an ether
AssigneesDow Global Technologies LLC, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
InventorsJing Luo, Xue Chen, David G. Barton, David W. Flaherty, Claudia Eugenia Berdugo-diaz, Yangsik Yun, Jieun Lee
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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 platinum and ruthenium deposited on a zeolite support.
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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 platinum and ruthenium deposited on a zeolite carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.