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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:
May. 14, 1991
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jan F Van Peppen, Chester, VA (US);
Assignee:
Allied-Signal Inc., Morris Township, Morris County, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ; C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
568835 ; 568814 ; 568830 ;
Abstract
In a process for production of cyclohexanol comprising the selective catalytic hydrogenation of phenol to a product mixture comprising a major portion of cyclohexanol and a substantially smaller portion of cyclohexanone, then distillation of said product mixture to obtain cyclohexanol containing a minor amount of cyclohexanone meeting desired specification levels; the improvement comprising adding to said product mixture an effective amount of a polyamine such as hexamethylene diamine and distilling the product mixture to obtain an improved yield of said cyclohexanol containing a minor amount of cyclohexanone.