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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2012
Palanichamy Manikandan, Pune, IN;
Sreenivasa Rao, Pune, IN;
Phani Kiran Bollapragada, Pune, IN;
David G. Barton, Midland, MI (US);
Richard M. Wehmeyer, Lake Jackson, TX (US);
William Tenn, Houston, TX (US);
Gerolamo Budroni, Terneuzen, NL;
Palanichamy Manikandan, Pune, IN;
Sreenivasa Rao, Pune, IN;
Phani Kiran Bollapragada, Pune, IN;
David G. Barton, Midland, MI (US);
Richard M. Wehmeyer, Lake Jackson, TX (US);
William Tenn, Houston, TX (US);
Gerolamo Budroni, Terneuzen, NL;
Dow Global Technologies LLC, Midland, MI (US);
Abstract
A heterogeneous catalyst that is a combination of rhodium, zinc, iron, a fourth metal and at least one metal selected from alkali metals and alkaline earth metals on a catalyst support (e.g. at least one of silica, alumina, titania, magnesia, zinc aluminate (ZnAlO), magnesium aluminate (MgAlO), magnesia-modified alumina, zinc oxide-modified alumina, zirconium oxide-modified alumina, and zinc oxide) and use of the catalyst in converting an alkylene to an oxygenate that has one more carbon atom than the alkylene.