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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2014
Filed:
May. 18, 2007
Applicants:
Markus Fanselow, Belfast, IE;
John Holbrey, Belfast, IE;
Kenneth Richard Seddon, Donaghadee, IE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Petroliam Nasional Berhad, Kuala Lumpur, MY;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07H 1/00 (2006.01); C07H 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A process for the preparation of water-soluble cellulose hydrolysis products, which comprises admixing cellulose with an ionic liquid in which the cellulose has at least some solubility, said ionic liquid state at a temperature at or below 150 -C, and treating the resulting solution with an acid in the presence of water, said acid having a pKa in water of less than 2 at 25 -C.