Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Company, Inc.

Thomas M Notermann

Erlind M Thorsteinson

Louis A Kapicak

Alfred W Naumann

A process is provided for epoxidation of an alkene in the presence of an oxygen-containing gas which comprises contacting the alkene and the oxygen-containing gas under epoxidation conditions in the presence of at least one gaseous efficiency-enhancing member of a redox-half reaction pair and a supported silver catalyst, the catalyst comprising a catalytically effective amount of silver on a solid porous support having a stability-enhancing morphology and an efficiency-enhancing amount of at least one efficiency-enhancing salt of a member of a redox-half reaction pair, the support having a surface area of at least about 0.7 m.sup.2 /g and a particulate matrix which contains particles having at least one substantially flat major surface.

Catalytic system for epoxidation of alkenes

A process is provided for the epoxidation of an alkene in the presence of an oxygen-containing gas which comprises contacting the alkene and the oxygen-containing gas under epoxidation conditions in the presence of at least one efficiency-enhancing gaseous member of a redox-half reaction pair and a solid catalyst, the catalyst comprising a catalytically-effective amount of silver on a solid support and an efficiency-enhancing amount of at least one efficiency-enhancing salt of a member of a redox-half reaction pair, the support having less than about 50 ppm, by weight, of leachable sodium.

Catalytic system for epoxidation of alkenes employing low sodium

A process is provided for epoxidation of an alkene in the presence of an oxygen-containing gas which comprises contacting the alkene and the oxygen-containing gas under epoxidation conditions in the presence of at least one gaseous efficiency-enhancing member of a redox-half reaction pair, a performance-enhancing amount of a fluorine-containing substance and a supported silver catalyst comprising a catalytically-effective amount of silver on a solid porous support and at least one efficiency-enhancing salt of a member of a redox-half reaction pair.

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Thomas M Notermann