United States Patent Office Patented Aug
2,760,990 United States Patent Office Patented Aug. 28, 1956 acid. If an acid group other than acetate is desired, mercury acetate and higher boiling carboxylic acid may 2,760,990 be intimately mixed together and the mixture is taken VNY TRANSETHERFICATION up with the starting vinyl ether. At this point the 5 mixture may be heated with stripping off of acetic acid. Warren H. Watanabe, Philadelphia, Pa., and Lawrence The reacting alcohol is then added and the mixture heated. E. Conlon, Moorestown, N.J., assignors to Rohm & Alternatively mercury acetate, carboxylic acid, vinyl Haas Company, Philadelphia, Pa., a corporation of ether, and alcohol are mixed and heated. Acetic acid Delaware may now be distilled off. The preparation of catalyst in No Drawing. Application August 15, 1952, O these ways, gives a highly active material, effective even Serial No. 304,648 at elevated temperatures. Another method of forming transetherifying catalysts 9 Claims. (C.260-614) is to mix together a common mercury salt of a strong acid, such as mercuric sulfate, and an alkali metal salt This invention concerns a process for preparing vinyl 5 of a desired carboxylic acid. Thus mercuric sulfate may ethers by transetherifying other vinyl ethers with alcohols be mixed with sodium oleate, or sodium benzoate, or in the presenec of soluble mercury salts of weak acids. It sodium ethylbutyrate. Such mixtures simulate the mer also deals with novel vinyl ethers, cury salts of weak acids, although they still give consid It has been proposed that volatile vinyl alkyl ethers erable acetal formation. in which the alkyl group is primary be reacted with pri 20 When alcohols are used which are acid sensitive, or mary or secondary monohydric alcohols: consisting of which are unstable to acid, or which decompose to give.
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