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US 3,937,669 AGranted
Catalyst for methylation of phenols
AssigneeAsahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHitoshi Nakajima, Fujio Nomura, Shinichi Izawa
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Abstract
Vapor phase methylation of phenols with methanol in contact with a vanadium oxide catalyst which may additionally contain iron oxide and at least one other oxide of magnesium, titanium, manganese, beryllium or boron.
Claims5
A metallic oxide catalyst comprising an oxide or iron, an oxide of vanadium, and at least one oxide selected from the group consisting of oxides of manganese, magnesium, titanium, beryllium and boron in which the atomic ratio of iron to vanadium to other metal or mixture thereof is from about 9 to 1/9 :
- 1 :
- 1 - 0.01.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.