ACETOXYLATION PROCESS

• Main Authors: HUANG, I-DER, SHERWIN, MARTIN B
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 09.09.1980
• Subjects: ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; APPARATUS THEREFOR; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; GENERAL METHODS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING

Vicinal hydroxyesters and diesters are prepared by the oxidation of olefins with molecular oxygen in a carboxylic acid at a temperature of over 150.degree. C. in the presence of a catalyst combination containing tellurium and an iodide source.