Eastman Chemical Company

Timothy Richard Nolen

Stephen Neal Falling

David Martin Hitch

Scott Donald Barnicki

Jerome L Stavinoha

John Robert Monnier

George L Oltean

Shaowo Liang

Robert Sterling Kline

Daniel Latham Terrill

Timothy W Price

David Carl Attride

Jerry Lynn Miller

Mary Kathleen Foster

Daniel Burts Compton

Dewey Wayne Fuller, Jr

A process for the recovery and purification of cyclobutanone from a crude product mixture obtained from an oxidation product mixture resulting from the oxidation of cyclobutanol to cyclobutanone in the presence of water. The process provides for the recovery of cyclobutanone in a purity of at least 90 weight percent by a combination of distillation steps.

Process for the recovery and purification of cyclobutanone

Disclosed is a process for the continuous production and recovery of 2,3-dihydrofuran (2,3-DHF) by the isomerization of 2,5-dihydrofuran (2,5-DHF) which contains certain impurities to 2,3-dihydrofuran in yields exceeding 95%. The process utilizes, in order, an isomerization zone containing one or more beds of a supported, palladium or platinum catalyst, a product recovery zone comprising a distillation column, a high boiler removal zone and means for feeding the 2,5-DHF component of the bottoms stream from the product recovery zone to the isomerization zone.

Continuous process for the conversion of 2,5-dihydrofuran to

Disclosed is a process for the preparation of cyclopropanecarboxaldehyde by the thermal isomerization of 2,3-dihydrofuran under superatmospheric pressure, e.g., at a temperature of about 300.degree. to 600.degree. C. and a pressure of about 3 to 345 bars absolute.

Process for the production of cyclopropanecarboxaldehyde

Disclosed herein is an improved gas phase process for the selective epoxidation of non-allylic olefins wherein the epoxidation is carried out in the presence of certain inert, paraffin hydrocarbons. Such hydrocarbons possess higher heat capacities as compared to other materials, e.g., nitrogen, argon, methane and helium, typically used as inert diluents in olefin epoxidations. The disclosed process is particularly useful for the continuous manufacture of 3,4-epoxy-1-butene from 1,3-butadiene.

Gas phase process for the epoxidation of non-allylic olefins

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Timothy Richard Nolen