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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:
Feb. 23, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
Dairen Chemical Corp., Taipei, TW;
Chang Chun Petrochemical Co., Ltd., Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
562519 ; 562517 ;
Abstract
A process of preparing acetic acid by reacting a mixture of a methyl ester, an alcohol, and water preferably as a solution in aqueous acetic acid, with carbon monoxide, with or without hydrogen, at a selected partial pressure, in the presence of a catalyst, preferably composed of a nickel or nickel/molybdenum compound with phosphorus compounds as ligands, and a promoter composed of iodine compounds, at a predetermined temperature is disclosed.