Epoxidation, the chemical conversion of unsaturated bonds in vegetable oils and fatty compounds into oxirane rings, represents a pivotal reaction in the sustainable transformation of renewable ...

Evolution of processes for PO production from propylene. The past chlorohydrin process (1), the current co-oxidation (2), HPPO (3) and CHPPO (4) processes, as well as the future aerobic epoxidation ...

Propylene oxide (PO) is one of the important propylene derivatives with high reactivity, which is used extensively as raw material for the manufacture of numerous commercial chemicals. The ...

The latest short science news items from C&EN. The traditional process for producing ethylene oxide, for example, is to combine ethylene and oxygen at a temperature of 270–290 °C and a pressure of 1–3 ...