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US 8,575,299 B1Granted
Processes for preparing diacids, dialdehydes and polymers
AssigneeE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorsVladimir Grushin, Leo Ernest Manzer, Walter Partenheimer
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Abstract
Alcohols are catalytically oxidized to aldehydes, in particular to benzaldehyde and diformylfuran, which are useful as intermediates for a multiplicity of purposes. The invention also relates to the polymerization of the dialdehyde and to the decarbonylation of the dialdehyde to furan.
Claims6
A process comprising polymerizing diformylfuran to form a polyester polymer comprising at least one of the repeat units A, B and C
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.