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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1997
Joseph Robert Zoeller, Kingsport, TN (US);
Donald Wayne Lane, Kingsport, TN (US);
Eleanor Hawkins Cwirko, Kingsport, TN (US);
Dewey Wayne Fuller, Jr, Bristol, TN (US);
Scott Donald Barnicki, Kingsport, TN (US);
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a process for making vinyl carboxylate esters such as vinyl acetate and vinyl propionate, by a reactive distillation process comprising a reaction zone wherein a vinyl carboxylate ester is formed from a carbonyl compound selected from aliphatic aldehydes and ketones and an anhydride of an aliphatic carboxylic acid and a distillation zone from which the vinyl carboxylate ester is recovered and substantially separated from other compounds contained within the column. The process requires significantly less equipment than known, analogous processes and thus the cost of constructing a plant for the operation of the present process is substantially reduced.