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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
James Michael Garner, Wilmington, DE (US);
Kristina Ann Kruetzer, Wilmington, DE (US);
Wilson Tam, Boothwyn, PA (US);
Assignee:
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
558338 ;
Abstract
A process for hydrocyanation of an aliphatic monoethylenically unsaturated compound, in which the ethylenic double bond is not conjugated to any other unsaturated group in the molecule, or a monoethylenically unsaturated compound in which the ethylenic double bond is conjugated to an ester group, which process uses a catalyst composition comprising a zero-valent nickel and a multidentate phosphite ligand in the presence of a Lewis acid promoter.