Process for the production of substantially pure gamma-butyrolactone
CA 1305715 C · Owner: Wood, Michael A. · Inventors: Wood, Michael A.
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A process is described for the production of substantially pure gamma-butyrolactone from a feed mixture containing a major amount of gamma-butyrolactone and a minor amount of diethyl succinate which comprises fractionally distilling the mixture in a fractionation zone in the presence of diethyl ethoxysuccinate and recovering from the fractionation zone an overhead vaporous product comprising gamma-butyrolactone which is substantially free from diethyl succinate and a liquid bottom product comprising diethyl ethoxysuccinate and diethyl succinate in admixture one with another. This procedure can be used to separate a gammabutyrolactone rich fraction obtained by distillation in one or more …
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- Granted July 28, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 28, 2009.
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