Process for preparing 1,3-butadiene and methacrolein simultaneously

Abstract

Abstract The present invention relates to a production of 1,3-butadiene and methacrolein simultaneously by catalytic oxidation of mixed butenes composed of butene-1, cis-2-butene, trans-2-butene (unless otherwise mentioned, these three butenes will referred to as n-butenes hereinafter) and iso-butylene more particularly, this invention relates to a process for preparing 1, 3-butadiene and methacrolein simultaneously in high yields by oxidizing the mixed butenes mainly composed of n-butenes and isobutylene with molecular oxygen at an elevated temperature in the presence of a catalyst having the empirical formula: Ni.sub.a Co.sub.b Fe.sub.c Bi.sub. d L.sub.e M.sub.h Mo.sub.f O.sub.g Wherein Ni represents nickel, Co represents cobalt, Fe represents iron, Bi represents bismuth, Mo represents molybdenum, O represents oxygen, L represents at least one element selected from the group of phosphorus, arsenic and boron, M represents at least one element selected from the group of potassium, rubidium and cesium, and a,b,c,d,e,f,g and h represent numbers of atoms of Ni, Co, Fe, Bi, L, Mo, O and M, respectively, with the proviso that when (f) is 12, (a) and (b) independently are numbers of 0 - 15, (a)+(b) being 15 - 1, (c) is a number of 7 - 0.5, (d) is a number of 4 - 0.1, (g) is a number of 36 - 98 which is accounted from typical oxides of these metals, (e) is a number of 0 - 4 and (h) is a number of 0.01 - 1.0. According to the present invention, the final products, i.e. 1.3 - butadiene and methacrolein are produced with a high selectivety from said mixed butenes without excessive oxidation of the olefins to undesired higher oxidation products of carbon such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, maleic acid and acetic acid.

Inventors

• 👤 Shigeo Takenaka
• 👤 Hitoshi Shimizu
• 👤 Kenichiro Yamamoto

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