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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1982
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1980
Michael T Barlow, Addlestone, GB;
The British Petroleum Company Limited, London, GB;
Abstract
Ethanol and/or acetaldehyde are produced by reacting at elevated temperature and pressure methanol with synthesis gas in the presence of a catalyst comprising a metal complex in which the metal is a metal of Group VIII of the Periodic Table other than iron, palladium and platinum and the ligand is derived from cyclopentadiene or a substituted cyclopentadiene and a promoter which is an iodide or a bromide. Optionally there is also added as a co-promoter a compound of formula X(A) (B) (C) wherein X is nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony or bismuth and A, B and C are individually C.sub.1 to C.sub.20 monovalent hydrocarbyl groups which are free from aliphatic carbon-carbon unsaturation and are bound to the X atom by a carbon/X bond, or X is phosphorus, arsenic, antimony or bismuth and any two of A, B and C together form an organic divalent cyclic ring system bonded to the X atom, or X is nitrogen and all of A, B and C together form an organic trivalent cyclic ring system bonded to the X atom, e.g. triphenylphosphine.