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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 1997
Filed:
May. 09, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard Alan Kemp, Stafford, TX (US);
Assignee:
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07D / ; C07D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
549536 ; 549534 ; 502347 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to an ethylene oxide catalyst having improved initial selectivity which catalyst comprises silver, a promoting amount of alkali metal, a promoting amount of rhenium and a promoting amount of rhenium-co-promoter selected from phosphorus, boron and mixtures thereof, supported on a porous refractory support.