Transesterification of borate esters for producing secondary alcohols
AssigneeContinental Oil Company
InventorsLeland Robert Holliday, Ronald Laurence Poe
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Abstract
An improved method for the transesterification of secondary alcohol borate esters with methanol, the improvement comprising separating a portion of the extractive distillation column overhead as a reflux stream and returning said reflux stream to the extractive distillation column between points located at or below the point at which the borate ester feed is introduced to the column and at or above the point at which methanol is introduced to the column, thus reducing the amount of boron-containing compounds in the crude secondary alcohol product stream.
Claims3
An improved method for the transesterification of secondary alcohol borate esters containing alkyl groups having from about 6 to about 20 carbon atoms with methanol wherein borate esters and methanol are reacted in a transesterification column and a portion of the extractive distillation column overhead is separated and returned to the column as a reflux stream, the improvement comprising returning said reflux stream to the extractive distillation column at a point at or below the borate ester feed and above the methanol feed.
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