Inventors:
Jay Fingeret Miller - Charleston WV
David Robert Bryant - South Charleston WV
Kenneth Look Hoy - Saint Albans WV
Nancy Ellen Kinkade - Charleston WV
Rachel Hilda Zanapalidou - Winchester MA
Assignee:
Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Technology Corporation - Danbury CT
International Classification:
B01D 6100
Abstract:
This invention relates to membrane separation of organic solubilized rhodium-organophosphite complex catalyst and free organophosphite ligand from a homogeneous non-aqueous hydroformylation reaction mixture, said mixture also containing, in addition to said catalyst and free ligand, aldehyde product and an organic solvent.