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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1989
Louis A Kapicak, Cross Lanes, WV (US);
Alfred W Naumann, Charleston, WV (US);
Thomas M Notermann, Charleston, WV (US);
Erlind M Thorsteinson, Charleston, WV (US);
Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Company Inc., Danbury, CT (US);
Abstract
A process is provided for epoxidation of an alkene in the presence of an oxygen-containing gas which comprises contacting the alkene and the oxygen-containing gas under epoxidation conditions in the presence of at least one gaseous efficiency-enhancing member of a redox-half reaction pair, a performance-enhancing amount of a fluorine-containing substance and a supported silver catalyst comprising a catalytically-effective amount of silver on a solid porous support and at least one efficiency-enhancing salt of a member of a redox-half reaction pair.