US 11,945,772 B2
Metallosilicate catalyst solvents for the formation of alkylene glycol monoalkyl ethers
Wen-Sheng Lee, Midland, MI (US); Mingzhe Yu, Sugar Land, TX (US); Jing L. Houser, Midland, MI (US); Sung-Yu Ku, Manvel, TX (US); Wanglin Yu, Pearland, TX (US); Stephen W. King, Braselton, GA (US); Paulami Majumdar, Midland, MI (US); and Le Wang, Pearland, TX (US)
Assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC, Midland, MI (US)
Appl. No. 17/627,183
Filed by Dow Global Technologies LLC, Midland, MI (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 29, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/053199
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 14, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/067223, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 8, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/908,108, filed on Sep. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0274903 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. C07C 41/06 (2006.01)
CPC C07C 41/06 (2013.01) 12 Claims
 
1. A method, comprising the step:
contacting an olefin, an alcohol, a metallosilicate catalyst and a solvent, wherein the solvent comprises structure (I):

OG Complex Work Unit Chemistry
wherein R1 and R2 are each selected from the group consisting of an aryl group and an alkyl group with the proviso that at least one of R1 and R2 is an aryl group, further wherein n is 1-3.