Patent ID: 6362349
Filing Date: 2002-03-26
Classification: C07D,Y02P

Abstract:
A process of preparing an olefin oxide comprising contacting an olefin with oxygen in the presence of a reducing agent and an optional diluent, and in the presence of a catalyst comprising a metal component dispersed on a metal ion-exchanged metallosilicate, wherein the contacting occurs under process conditions sufficient to produce the olefin oxide; and wherein the metallosilicate is selected from borosilicates, aluminosilicates, gallosilicates, and vanadosilicates, and with the proviso that when the metallosilicate is a vanadosilicate the catalyst does not consist of a metal component selected from one or more Group VIII elements, lanthanide elements, rhenium, silver, and gold dispersed on the vanadosilicate.