US Patent Issued to DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 15 for "Preparation method for methylphenol and homologue" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,376, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Dalian, China).

"Preparation method for methylphenol and homologue" was invented by Anhui Lu (Dalian, China), Kaiyuan Liu (Dalian, China) and Wencui Li (Dalian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preparation method for methylphenol and homologue. Under the conditions of reaction temperature of 150-350deg C. and reaction pressure of 1-50 atm, a mixed material of methanol, ethanol and acetone is fed into a reactor containing a catalyst by a carrier gas to produce methylphenol through coupling-aromatization reaction. The method provides a reaction path for di...