Patents by Inventor Richard W. Goetz

Richard W. Goetz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Process for preparing glycolaldehyde and/or ethylene glycol
    Patent number: 4405821
    Abstract: In the process for producing glycolaldehyde and/or ethylene glycol by the reaction of formaldehyde, carbon monoxide and hydrogen in a non-amide solvent at elevated temperature and superatmospheric pressure in the presence of a catalytic amount of a rhodium-containing catalyst, an improvement is provided which comprises carrying out said reaction in the presence of a glycolaldehyde yield-enhancing phosphine oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1983
    Assignee: National Distillers and Chemical Corporation
    Inventor: Richard W. Goetz
  • Rhodium catalyzed process for acetaldehyde and ethanol
    Patent number: 4291179
    Abstract: Acetaldehyde and ethanol are produced by the catalyzed reaction of formaldehyde, carbon monoxide and hydrogen using a halogen-containing rhodium catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1981
    Assignee: National Distillers and Chemical Corp.
    Inventors: Richard W. Goetz, Lawrence D. Meixsel, David W. Smith
  • Glycol aldehyde and ethylene glycol processes
    Patent number: 4200765
    Abstract: A process for preparing glycol aldehyde by reacting formaldehyde, hydrogen and carbon monoxide at elevated temperature and superatmospheric pressure in the presence of rhodium catalyst and conversion thereof to ethylene glycol as the substantially exclusive polyol product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1980
    Assignee: National Distillers and Chemical Corporation
    Inventor: Richard W. Goetz
  • Transalkylation of tertiary amines and alcohols, to produce ethylene glycol
    Patent number: 4059640
    Abstract: A tertiary amine and an alcohol are transalkylated. The tertiary amine is reacted with the alcohol, or with the formate ester of the alochol, at a temperature of from about 50.degree. to 300.degree. C. When the reaction is effected using the alcohol (rather than its formate ester), then the reaction is carried out in the presence of carbon monoxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1977
    Assignee: National Distillers and Chemical Corp.
    Inventor: Richard W. Goetz