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Title: Production of methyl-vinyl ketone from levulinic acid

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1019095
 [1];  [2]
  1. Verona, WI
  2. Madison, WI
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A method for converting levulinic acid to methyl vinyl ketone is described. The method includes the steps of reacting an aqueous solution of levulinic acid, over an acid catalyst, at a temperature of from room temperature to about 1100 K. Methyl vinyl ketone is thereby formed.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-03ER15468
Assignee:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, WI)
Patent Number(s):
7,960,592
Application Number:
US Patent Application 12/685,887
OSTI ID:
1019095
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Levulinic Acid as a Basic Chemical Raw Material journal August 1956
Cheletrope Reaktion vinyloger Enollactone journal July 1975
Interconversion and decomposition of furanones journal January 1999
Hydrogenolysis, IV. Gas phase decarboxylation of carboxylic acids journal February 1982
Levulinic acid synthesis via regiospecific carbonylation of methyl vinyl ketone ob of its reaction products with hydrochloric ach) or an alkanol or of a mixture of acetone with a formaldehyde precursor catalyzed by a highly active Pd-HCl system journal February 1990

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