Back to results
US 4,065,511 AGranted
Alcohol production
AssigneePhillips Petroleum Company
InventorHans D. Holtz
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
Selected organic peroxides are converted to the corresponding alcohols when contacted with a triorganophosphine in a reaction medium comprising water and an organic solvent miscible with water. In one embodiment, diene polyperoxides are converted to the novel diols.
Claims14
A process for preparing alcohols substantially free of ethers which comprises contacting at a temperature in the range of from about 0.degree. C to 100.degree. C, a pressure in the range from 0.5 to about 10 atmospheres, and under an atmosphere which is substantially free of oxygen:
- a. at least one organic peroxide selected from:
- I. organic peroxides having the formula ##STR13## wherein R and R' are hydrocarbyl groups selected from alkyl, cycloalkyl, and aryl groups having from 1-12 carbon atoms,
- Ii. organic peroxides having the formula ##STR14## wherein R.sup.2 is an alkylene group having 3-9 carbon atoms, III. organic peroxides having the formula ##STR15## wherein R.sup.3 is a hydrocarbyl group having from 3-10 carbon atoms, IV. endoperoxides, and
- V. polyperoxides derived from the free radical polymerization of olefinically unsaturated monomers in the presence of oxygen and wherein the olefinically unsaturated monomer is
- 1. a conjugated diene and the polyperoxide has repeating units of the formulas ##STR16## wherein x is an integer from 2 to 200 and R.sup.4 is hydrogen or a hydrocarbyl group selected from the group consisting of alkyl, aryl, alkaryl, aralkyl, and alkaryl groups having 2-20 carbon atoms, or
- 2.
3 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.