Process for producing ethylene glycol and methanol
AssigneeUnion Carbide Corporation
InventorsLeonard Kaplan, Robert G. Bergman
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Abstract
This invention relates to the manufacture of ethylene glycol, methanol, and derivatives thereof from the reaction of hydrogen and oxides of carbon, by a homogeneous catalytic process using as the catalyst a solubilized ruthenium carbonyl complex and an organosilicon compound having a hydrogen bonded to silicon (--Si--H).
Claims10
The process for making the products ethylene glycol, methanol, and derivatives thereof directly from the reaction of hydrogen and oxides of carbon which comprises carrying out said process in a liquid phase containing an effective amount of a ruthenium carbonyl catalyst and an organosilicon compound, having at least one hydrogen bonded to silicon, said process being carried out at a temperature between about 50.degree. C. and 400.degree. C. and a pressure between about 100 psia (7.0 Kg/cm.sup.2) and 15,000 psia (1,054.6 Kg/cm).
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