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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1981
Filed:
Nov. 07, 1979
Applicant:
Inventors:
Edward E McEntire, Austin, TX (US);
Robert M Gipson, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texaco Dev. Corp., White Plains, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
26034816 ;
Abstract
Alkyl substituted ethylene carbonates are converted to substituted ethylene oxides by heating the respective carbonates in the presence of a catalyst comprising alkali metal halides or lanthanum iodide. The alkyl substituted ethylene carbonates have the general formula ##STR1## where R is alkyl, aryl, substituted alkyl, substituted aryl, alkaryl or aralkyl.