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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2009
Applicants:
Hiroshi Kouno, Ichihara, JP;
Shuji Ozawa, Yokohama, JP;
Naritoshi Yoshimura, Funabashi, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Propylene glycol is produced by a method of producing propylene glycol, the method including: obtaining propylene glycol by performing catalytic hydrogenation of glycerol in the presence of a catalyst, the catalyst containing zinc oxide and at least one of copper and copper oxide, and the catalyst, after being reduced at 180° C. to 230° C. in the presence of hydrogen, showing a half width of from 0.4 to 1.1 of a peak having a peak top at a position at which a diffraction angle (2θ±0.2°) is 43.1° in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained using CuKα as a radiation source.