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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 1976

Filed:

Dec. 05, 1974
Applicant:
Inventors:

Phillip D Montgomery, Creve Coeur, MO (US);

Richard N Moore, St. Louis, MO (US);

Walter R Knox, Town and Country, MO (US);

Assignee:

Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ; C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2606 / ; 2606 / ; 2606 / ; 2606 / ;
Abstract

Toluene and toluene derivatives are dehydrocoupled to stilbene and stilbene derivatives in a vapor phase reaction in the presence of a metal oxide. The stilbene products are purified of by-product polar impurities. The purified stilbene can be catalytically reacted in the vapor phase with ethylene to produce styrene.


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