labgrrrl
Member posted 09-25-98 03:01 PM
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Have you looked vanadium? It's been used to selectively oxydize olefins in the past and is actually proposed as a better than Wacker in at least one U.S. patent.
-labgrrrl
labgrrrl
Member posted 09-25-98 03:01 PM
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Sorry for the awful English...
I'll dig up some patent info and either post the reference or retype part of the patent here.
-labgrrrl
drone 342
Member posted 09-27-98 02:06 PM
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Hey whuzzup!?,
Say, do you have the patent number for that handy? I've heard a little about this, but of course vanadium has its own aquisition problems (I could be wrong on this, so if you know of a good place to get it cheap, lemme know.) RhCl3 is good, but its even more rare and expensive than either of these. I've always been suspicious that perhaps the right Ni2+ species might work, but I haven't seen any literature backing that up. I'm going to do some more digging, and hopefully come up with something. I'm looking forward to seeing the patent you dug up.
-drone #342