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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Harold Stanley Bruner, Jr, Hockessin, DE (US);
Samuel Livingston Lane, Beaumont, TX (US);
Bruce Edwin Murphree, Beaumont, TX (US);
Assignees:
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
DSM, N.V., Galeen, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ; C07C / ; C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
562517 ; 562590 ;
Abstract
This invention provides a process for the preparation of adipic acid from pentenoic acids or esters of pentenoic acids by hydrocarboxylation of a reaction mixture in which gamma-valerolactone constitutes 30 to 70% by weight of the reaction mixture.