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The production of ethyl acetate from ethylene and acetic acid using clay catalysts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

R. Gregory ,
D. J. H. Smith  and
D. J. Westlake
R. Gregory
Affiliation:
BP Research Centre, Chertsey Road, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex TW16 7LN
D. J. H. Smith
Affiliation:
BP Research Centre, Chertsey Road, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex TW16 7LN
D. J. Westlake
Affiliation:
BP Research Centre, Chertsey Road, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex TW16 7LN
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Abstract

Wyoming bentonite, exchanged with cations of high charge density, is an efficient and selective catalyst for the production of ethyl acetate, in a single step, from ethylene and acetic acid. The reaction occurs in the interlamellar space of the clay where it is proposed that strong Brönsted acid sites on the clay coupled with highly polarized intercalated reactants produce a reaction which is otherwise difficult to carry out.

Type
Research Article
Information
Clay Minerals , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , December 1983 , pp. 431 - 435
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1983

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