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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1982
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Leonard Kaplan, Charleston, WV (US);
Assignee:
Union Carbide Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07F / ; C07C / ; C07C / ; C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2604045 ; 260401 ; 260403 ; 26050115 ; 518701 ; 560 76 ; 560 80 ; 560122 ; 560127 ; 560190 ; 560266 ;
Abstract
Ammonium carboxylates having the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon radical. The defined carboxylates promote the formation of alkane polyols in a homogeneous liquid phase mixture wherein hydrogen and carbon monoxide are reacted in the presence of a rhodium carbonyl complex at a temperature of from about 100.degree. C. to 375.degree. C. and a pressure of from about 500 psia to about 50,000 psia.