Back to results
US 6,806,390 B1Granted
Hydroperoxide decomposition catalyst
AssigneeInuista North America S.àr.l.
InventorsNorman Herron, Stephan Schwarz, Joe Douglas Druliner
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An improved catalytic process for decomposing alkyl or aromatic hydroperoxides is disclosed which utilizes a caalytic amount of a heterogeneous Au catalyst that has been treated with an organosilicon reagent.
Claims17
An improved process for decomposing a hydroperoxide to form a decomposition reaction mixture containing a corresponding alcohol and ketone, the improvement comprising decomposing the hydroperoxide by contacting the hydroperoxide with a catalytic amount of a heterogeneous gold catalyst wherein the gold catalyst has been silanized with an organosilicon reagent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.