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US 5,866,714 AGranted
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AssigneeArco Chemical Technology, L.P.
InventorsMichael J. Szady, Ahmad Soltani-Ahmadi
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Abstract
An olefin such as isobutylene is reacted with a carboxylic acid to produce the ester in the presence of an alkanol modifying agent effective to suppress olefin polymerization, at least part of the modifying agent being formed in situ by reaction of the olefin and water.
Claims1
The process for the separation of diisobutylene from t-butyl acetate which comprises azeotropically distilling the diisobutylene from the t-butyl acetate with a t-butanol azeotroping agent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.