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Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 1976

Filed:

Dec. 16, 1974
Applicant:
Inventor:

Kung-You Lee, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);

Assignee:

Texaco Inc., New York, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ; C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2606 / ; 203 43 ; 203 44 ; 203 45 ; 203 46 ; 203 70 ; 203 81 ; 203 82 ; 203 83 ; 203 91 ; 203 92 ; 203 93 ; 260616 ; 2606 / ; 2606 / ;
Abstract

Methyl tertiary butyl ether may be recovered from etherification reaction effluent by azeotropic distillation to recover methanol-ether azeotrope overhead which latter is azeotropically distilled in the presence of n-pentane to give pure ether bottoms substantially free of water and methanol.


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