i have limited eperience with chemistry, so please lend me a hand...i have a diagram that shows one how to turn maleic anhydride and methanol into 1,4 bdo. i could post the pages if i knew how...
i'll just describe what they say-
-one should estrify maleic anhydride with methanol and feed to a low presure vapor-phase hydrogenation system to yield 1,4 bdo.
i have a general idea of what this means, and i also have a diagram, some of which i understand, that eplains the rxn...
if one of you knowledgeable people who aren't yourselves could dream me a step by step that an idiot (i know just the one) would be able to follow, i'd be gratefull.