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US 4,391,756 AGranted
Organo-monovalent aurus complex catalysts for the manufacture of olefin oxides
AssigneeThe Standard Oil Company
InventorsPhilip L. Kuch, Daniel R. Herrington, Janet M. Eggett
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the oxidation of monoolefins with molecular oxygen to the corresponding olefin oxides, in the liquid phase in the presence of a catalyst comprising an organo-monovalent aurous complex.
Claims2
The catalyst complex represented by the empirical formula:
- Au.sup.I LY
- wherein
- L is a neutral coordinating .pi.-acid type ligand;
- and
- Y is a uninegative non-coordinating anion selected from the group consisting of F.sub.3 CSO.sub.3.sup.-, BF.sub.4.sup.-, PF.sub.6.sup.-, ClO.sub.4.sup.-, AlCl.sub.4.sup.- and picrate.
2 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.