2105.     ---------------.  [LEVESQUE, C. L.]  Oxo Reaction.  Chem. Eng. News, vol. 29, 1951, p. 1830.

        Paper presented at the National Capital Section meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.  The Oxo reaction shows important possibilities for the production of long-chain alcohols for use in detergents, synthetic lubricants, and plasticizers.  It is also of great value as a method for synthesizing aldehydes.  The method has been principally used in the United States to synthesize alcohols from petroleum hydrocarbons by hydrogenation of the aldehyde formed in the initial reaction.  Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey is operating a plant to produce isooctyl alcohol from a mixture of heptenes.  It is reported that Standard Oil Co. of Indiana will erect an Oxo plant soon.  The Rohm and Haas Co. is operating a pilot plant to produce several derivatives of 3,5,5-trimethyl-hexaldehyde from diisobutylene.  Use of the Oxo reaction to produce C₈ alcohols has already helped materially to relieve the shortage of 2-ethylhexanol, a prime raw material for the production of plasticizers.

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