Process for making glycol
AssigneeUnion Carbide Corporation
InventorLeonard Kaplan
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Abstract
This invention is concerned with producing ethylene and/or 1,2-propylene glycol by the reaction of a non-cyclic oxymethylene compound formed by the hydration or acetalization of formaldehyde with a compound containing one or more of silicon, germanium and tin bonded therein which functions as an addend in a photochemically or thermally induced radical reaction, to form a 1,2-dioxyethylene containing compound, and cleaving such 1,2-dioxyethylene containing compound to form the glycol thereof.
Claims6
The process of producing ethylene glycol and/or 1,2-propylene glycol which comprises reacting a non-cyclic oxymethylene compound by the hydration or acetalization of formaldehyde with a compound containing one or more of silicon, germanium and tin bonded therein which functions as an addend in a photochemically or thermally induced radical reaction, to form a 1,2-dioxyethylene containing compound, and cleaving such 1,2-dioxyethylene containing compound to form the glycol thereof said non-cyclic oxymethylene compound being formed by the hydration or acetalization of formaldehyde.
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