摘要 |
A process for manufacture of quaternary carboxylic acids from linear olefins by means of reaction with carbon monoxide and a solid acid catalyst, characterized in that a linear olefin, or a precursor thereof , is reacted in a batch reactor or a continuous reactor, with carbon monoxide and water, in the presence of an acidic ion exchanger, having sufficient acid groups to provide requisite protons for conversion of said olefin or a precursor of it, and carbon monoxide into quaternary carboxylic acids, and in the presence of a polar non-coordinating organic solvent.
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