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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:
Jan. 01, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
R Scott Smith, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Assignee:
Ethyl Corporation, Richmond, VA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
585516 ;
Abstract
A normal 1-alkene containing 3-8 carbons is coupled with itself, another such alkene, or ethene in the presence of a supported alkali metal as a catalyst and about 10-100 mol %, based on the amount of alkali metal catalyst, of an alkali metal hydroxide as a co-catalyst; the support being a silica having a surface area not greater than 5 m.sup.2 /g. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the alkene is propene or a mixture of propene and ethene, the alkali metal is potassium or a potassium alloy, and the co-catalyst is potassium hydroxide.