The cumene process (cumene-phenol process, Hock process) is an industrial process for synthesizing phenol and acetone from benzene and propylene. The...
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chemicals, primarily phenol and acetone (known as the cumene process). Commercial production of cumene is by Friedel–Crafts alkylation of benzene with propylene...
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Phenol (section Cumene process)
but the cumene process is the dominant technology. Accounting for 95% of production (2003) is the cumene process, also called Hock process. It involves...
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cumene: C 6H 5(CH 3) 2CH + O2 → C 6H 5(CH 3) 2COOH Dicumyl peroxide is a side product. Cumene hydroperoxide is an intermediate in the cumene process for...
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Organic peroxides (section Cumene process)
reagents in major commercial processes. In the cumene process, acetone and phenol are produced by decomposition of cumene hydroperoxide (Me = methyl):...
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styrene as a monomer cumene – isopropylbenzene; a feedstock in the cumene process phenol – hydroxybenzene; often made by the cumene process acetone – dimethyl...
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oil Burton process – cracking of hydrocarbons Cracking (chemistry) – the generic term for breaking up the larger molecules Cumene process – making phenol...
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spontaneous reactions with oxygen at elevated temperatures, such as in the Cumene process. The free radical chain reaction is sometimes referred to as the Bolland-Gee...
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worldwide. Propene and benzene are converted to acetone and phenol via the cumene process. Propene is also used to produce isopropyl alcohol (propan-2-ol), acrylonitrile...
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oxidation of harmful chemical compounds in wastewater streams or of cumene in the cumene process. Also in the treatment of waste water trickle bed reactors are...
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