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Catalytic polymerization of carbon monoxide and olefin, with organo nitro or organo nitrite compound additive

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OSTI ID:6313527
In the process of producing linear alternating polymers or carbon monoxide and at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon by contacting the carbon monoxide and unsaturated hydrocarbon under polymerization conditions in the presence of a catalyst composition formed from a mixture of a palladium compound, the anion of a non-hydrohalogenic acid having a pKa below about 6 and a bidentate phosphorus ligand, the improvement wherein the mixture from which the catalyst composition is formed additionally contains an organic nitro compound or an organic nitride compound.
Assignee:
Shell Oil Co., Houston, TX
Patent Number(s):
US 4806630
OSTI ID:
6313527
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English