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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 1994
Filed:
May. 20, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Rhone-Poulenc Chimie, Courbevoie Cedex, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
558381 ;
Abstract
Branched saturated dinitrile byproducts, e.g. 2-methylglutaronitrile, 2-ethylsuccinonitrile and mixtures thereof, are converted into useful ethylenic nitriles by dehydrocyanating same, in vapor phase, in the presence of an at least partially acidified cation exchange substrate, notably a molecular sieve, clay, acid oxide or lamellar phosphate.