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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 1980
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1978
Helmut Scharf, Schermbeck, DE;
Chemische Werke Huls A.G., Marl, DE;
Abstract
This is an improvement in the process for preparing acetone by the catalytic, oxidative decarbonylation of isobutyraldehyde in the gaseous phase by passing a mixture consisting of isobutyraldehyde, oxygen and an inert diluent, when desired, at higher temperatures and at contact-times from 0.1 to 10 seconds over a carrier catalyst where the novel catalyst contains a mixture of copper oxide or manganese oxide, or a mixture thereof, with zinc oxide. A mixture comprising about 1 to 4.5 vol. % of isobutyraldehyde, about 1.2 to 99 vol. % of oxygen and an inert diluent, when desired, is passed over a catalyst at a temperature of about 130.degree. to 180.degree. C., consisting of about 0.1 to 6% by weight of Cu or Mn, or a mixture thereof, in the form of their oxides and of about 1 to 10% by weight of Zn in the form of zinc oxide on aluminum oxide as the carrier.