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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:
Mar. 05, 1991
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toyo Kasei Kogyo Company Limited, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
20415776 ; 20415778 ; 20415779 ;
Abstract
This invention is concerned with the manufacture of methanesulfonyl chloride from a mixture of methane, sulfur dioxide gas and chloride gas under irradiation of light having a wave length of 200.about.600 nm from a low vapor pressure mercury lamp, a high vapor pressure mercury lamp, a luminescent lamp a xenon lamp and/or sun light. High purity methanesulfonyl chloride is manufactured simply by single distillation, without using methylmercaptan which has a bad odor as raw material. The invention has special merit in utilizing sulfur dioxide gas which is produced in a large amount in the desulphurization of petroleum.