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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:
Feb. 23, 1982

Filed:

Oct. 18, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:

Arthur H Gilbert, Stockton-on-Tees, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ; C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2604 / ;
Abstract

A process for the dimerization of acrylonitrile to dicyanobutene and methylene-glutaronitrile under the influence of a phosphinite or phosphonite catalyst uses as solvent a mixture of proton-donating organic solvent, an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent and an aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent in a specified ratio so facilitating product isolation by phase separation or liquid/liquid extraction.


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