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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2001
Joseph Robert Zoeller, Kingsport, TN (US);
Andy Hugh Singleton, Kingsport, TN (US);
Gerald Charles Tustin, Kingsport, TN (US);
Donald Lee Carver, Church Hill, TN (US);
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN (US);
Abstract
A vapor-phase carbonylation method for producing esters and carboxylic acids from reactants comprising lower alkyl alcohols, lower alkyl alcohol generating compounds, and mixtures thereof. The method includes contacting the reactants and carbon monoxide in a carbonylation zone of a carbonylation reactor under vapor-phase conditions with a catalyst having a catalytically effective amount of iridium and tin associated with a solid carrier material.
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