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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 25, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Cuscurida, Austin, TX (US);
John F Knifton, Austin, TX (US);
Pei-Shing E Dai, Port Arthur, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texaco Chemical Company, White Plains, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
568620 ; 502 79 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a process for producing narrow range glycols which comprises reacting a glycol with ethylene oxide in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst consisting essentially of an alkali metal, alkaline earth metal or alkali metal halide impregnated into an inorganic solid oxide selected from the groups consisting of small pore faujasite zeolites, pentasil zeolites, small pore ferrierite zeolites, two-dimensional mordenite zeolites, .beta.-type zeolite, basic zeolites and Group IV oxides or mixtures thereof.