Mobil Oil Corporation

George C Barile

Warren W Kaeding

A process for the production of 3,4-dimethyl-1-ethylbenzene by selective alkylation of dimethylbenzene with ethylene. The process is carried out in the presence of a crystalline zeolite catalyst having a silica to alumina mole ratio of at least about 12 and a Constraint Index of greater than 2 and up to about 12.

Selective alkylation of xylenes with ethylene

Aromatic hydrocarbons are selectively alkylated using an alkylating mixture containing both ethylene and propylene. By employing a zeolite ZSM-12 based alkylation catalyst, essentially only the propylene from the olefin-containing alkylation mixture will react with the aromatic hydrocarbon to thereby form both an alkylaromatic product enriched in propylated alkylaromatic and a propylene-free residual olefin-containing mixture enriched in the unreacted ethylene.

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South Somerville, NJ, United States of America

George C Barile