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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2020
Applicant:
Cargill, Incorporated, Wayzata, MN (US);
Inventors:
Timothy Walter Abraham, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Ravi R. Gokarn, Omaha, NE (US);
Assignee:
CARGILL, INCORPORATED, Wayzata, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 67/327 (2006.01); C07C 67/54 (2006.01); C07C 67/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 67/327 (2013.01); C07C 67/03 (2013.01); C07C 67/54 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for producing esters of an alpha, beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid are disclosed, the method includes reacting a three or four carbon beta-hydroxyalkanoate composition or mixtures thereof with a mono-alcohol under heating conditions to form a reaction product and distilling the reaction product to recover a composition containing at least fifty percent by weight of the ester of the alpha, beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid.