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US 4,301,038 AGranted
Catalyst for the production of unsaturated aliphatic acids
AssigneeThe Standard Oil Company
InventorsWilfrid G. Shaw, David B. Terrill
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a process for the production of unsaturated aliphatic acids and the catalyst therefore, by the vapor phase oxidation of the corresponding unsaturated aliphatic aldehydes with molecular oxygen, optionally in the presence of steam, in the presence of an oxidation catalyst consisting of the oxides of the elements molybdenum, vanadium, rhenium, plus at least one of the oxides of magnesium, copper and cadmium.
Claims4
An oxidation catalyst having the empirical formula:
- Mo.sub.a V.sub.b Re.sub.c X.sub.d O.sub.e
- wherein X is one or more of the elements selected from the group consisting of magnesium, copper and cadmium, and
- wherein the number of each element present is represented by a-d;
- wherein
- a is a number from 8-16;
- b is a number from 0.5 to 5;
- c is a number from 0.01 to 5;
- d is a number from 0.01 to 5;
- and
- e is a number that satisfies the valence requirements of the other elements present.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.