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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Geoffrey James Moore, Northwich, GB;
Jenny O'Kell, Sale, GB;
Assignee:
Imperial Chemical Industries PLC, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
570176 ;
Abstract
A process for the production of difluoromethane which comprises reacting a compound of formula XYCF.sub.2 wherein X and Y are each H, Cl or Br but at least one of X and Y is an atom other than hydrogen, and in particular chlorodifluoromethane, with hydrogen at elevated temperature in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst, in particular a catalyst comprising palladium carried on an active carbon support.