Ethane → Ethylene

HRID 2400182Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 2400182 reaction equation
[H][H].[Cl:3][CH:4]=[C:5](Cl)[Cl:6].CC>>[CH2:4]=[CH2:5].[Cl:3]/[CH:4]=[CH:5]\[Cl:6].[CH:4]([Cl:3])=[CH2:5]

Participants

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Procedure

The same catalyst, procedures and apparatus were used as in Example 24, but at a reaction temperature of 235 degrees Celsius, a pressure of 76 psig, a residence time of 4.9 seconds and a molar feed ratio of hydrogen to trichloroethylene of 5.5. After 23 hours on line, trichloroethylene conversion was at 93 percent, with ethane being produced therefrom at a selectivity of 96 percent, ethylene at 2 percent, cis-1,2-dichloroethylene at 0.5 percent, and vinyl chloride and the other minor products of Example 1 being produced at a selectivity of less than 0.5 percent.

Workup

  1. customat a reaction temperature of 235 degrees Celsius
  2. customa residence time of 4.9 seconds
  3. customproduced

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-79e70f1656a142208ec0cb7e8d2d1f06
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1995_09
Patent number
US05453557

Reaction notes

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