Improvements in and relating to the production of oxygen-containing organic compounds

• Main Authors: LAMB SIDNEY ARTHUR, TAYLOR ARTHUR WILLIAM CHARLES
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.10.1955
• Subjects: ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Oxygen-containing compounds are produced by a process of continuous carbonylation of olefines with carbon monoxide and hydrogen at elevated temperature and pressure in the presence of a dissolved cobalt catalyst, and simultaneously decomposing cobalt compounds dissolved in the carbonylation product...