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Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2008

Filed:

Feb. 22, 2007
Applicants:

Evert Van Der Heide, Amsterdam, NL;

Gerardus Martinus Maria Van Kessel, Amsterdam, NL;

Timothy Michael Nisbet, Amsterdam, NL;

Garo Garbis Vaporciyan, Houston, TX (US);

Inventors:

Evert Van Der Heide, Amsterdam, NL;

Gerardus Martinus Maria Van Kessel, Amsterdam, NL;

Timothy Michael Nisbet, Amsterdam, NL;

Garo Garbis Vaporciyan, Houston, TX (US);

Assignee:

Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07D 317/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An alkylene carbonate is produced by the reaction of an alkylene oxide with carbon dioxide in the presence of a phosphonium compound as catalyst in a process in which The alkylene carbonate thus produced is suitably reacted with an alkanol to produce an alkane diol and a dialkyl carbonate.


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