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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2012
Celanese International Corporation, Irving, TX (US);
Dick Nagaki, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Craig J. Peterson, Houston, TX (US);
Heiko Weiner, Pasadena, TX (US);
Elizabeth Bowden, Houston, TX (US);
Josefina T. Chapman, Houston, TX (US);
Sean Mueller, Pasadena, TX (US);
Celanese International Corporation, Irving, TX (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the invention is to a process for producing an acrylate product. The process includes the steps of contacting an alkanoic acid and an alkylenating agent over a catalyst composition under conditions effective to produce the acrylate product. The catalyst composition comprises a metal phosphate matrix containing vanadium and bismuth. Preferably, the catalyst comprises, in an active phase, vanadium to bismuth at a molar ratio of at least 0.02:1. Preferably, the catalyst composition is substantially free of titanium.