Process for the production of propionate esters
CA 1318328 C · Owner: Shell Canada Limited · Inventors: Petrus, Leonardus; De Bruijn, Wouter
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Integrated process for the simultaneous production of methyl propionate (MEP) and a second propionate ester by catalytically carbonylating C2H4 with CO and CH3OH, isolating MEP from the carbonylation reaction mixture, catalytically transesterifying MEP with a second alcohol to form the second propionate ester isolating a CH3OH-MEP azeotrope from the transesterification reaction mixture, and recirculating the isolated azeotrope to the carbonylation. T13/T245
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- Granted May 25, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended May 25, 2010.
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