Manufacture of polyfunctional compounds
AssigneeUnion Carbide Corporation
InventorsRoy L. Pruett, Wellington E. Walker
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Abstract
A catalyst composition useful in the process for the preparation of polyfunctional oxygen-containing compounds such as ethylene glycol and/or derivatives thereof which comprise reacting an oxide of carbon with hydrogen using a rhodium complex catalyst.
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The catalyst composition for preparing a polyhydric alcohol by the conversion of a mixture consisting essentially of an oxide of carbon and hydrogen to said alcohol, which catalyst is a rhodium carbonyl complex formed in the presence of said mixture at a temperature of between 100.degree. and 375.degree. C. and at a pressure of between 500 to 50,000 psig of said oxides of carbon and hydrogen.
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