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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:
Aug. 21, 1990
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Erek J Erekson, LaGrange, IL (US);
Anthony L Lee, Glen Ellyn, IL (US);
Assignee:
Institute of Gas Technology, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
585444 ; 585624 ; 585627 ; 585661 ;
Abstract
A process for dehydrogenation of aliphatic and alicyclic hydrocarbon compounds and aliphatic and alicyclic substituted aromatic hydrocarbon compounds to form unsaturated aliphatic and alicyclic hydrocarbon chains. The catalyst is mixed basic metal oxide catalyst, one preferred catalyst is boron/alkali metal promoted metal oxide. Reaction of ethylbenzene according to this invention results in conversion to styrene.