Two new catalyst systems take aim at these problems. One catalyst splits ethanol to give hydrogen at 270 °C and produces ...

But the world uses only around 15 million tonnes of acetic acid a year, limiting the potential role this new process could ...

In a 1958 patent to Celanese (New York City), inventor Arthur W. Schnizer reported the reaction of acetaldehyde and acetic anhydride with a benzenesulfonic acid catalyst to produce vinyl acetate with ...