Inventors:
Silas W. Holmes - Columbia SC
Edward A. Burt - Orangeburg SC
Dixie E. Goins - Orangeburg SC
Assignee:
Ethyl Corporation - Richmond VA
International Classification:
C07C 3714, C07C 3906
Abstract:
A process for producing 2,4-di-substituted phenols wherein an olefin is reacted with phenol in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst comprising an aluminum phenoxide bonded to an acidic solid polymeric resin to preferably form 2,4-di-substituted phenol. A process for preparing a heterogeneous catalyst and a heterogeneous catalyst having the structure
(Resin --A--). sub. m Al(--OC. sub. 6 R. sub. 5). sub. n (11)
wherein Resin is a solid polymeric resin having acidic functional groups A, m is 1 or 2, n is 2 or 3 and the R are independently selected from H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, and aralkyl. Preferably, a styrene-divinylbenzene polymeric resin of a macroreticular structure is used for the alkylation process and A is --SO. sub. 3 --.