Patent ID: 8492602

Claim:
A process for alkylating an aromatic hydrocarbon with an alkylating agent to produce an alkylated aromatic product, said process comprising contacting said aromatic hydrocarbon and said alkylating agent with a catalyst composition under alkylation conditions effective to alkylate said aromatic hydrocarbon with said alkylating agent to form an effluent comprising said alkylated aromatic product, wherein said catalyst composition comprising: (a) a first MCM-22 family material; and (b) a binder comprising a titanium compound in the range from about 1 wt. % to about 35 wt. % based on the weight of said catalyst composition, wherein said titanium compound has anatase and rutile phases, and wherein the amount of said alkylated aromatic product produced is at least 1 wt. % greater than the alkylated aromatic product in the effluent produced by contacting an alumina-bound-catalyst composition having a binder consisting of alumina and having same weight ratio of the molecular sieve over the alumina-bound-catalyst composition when compared under equivalent alkylation conditions.