Ethylene chain growth process, manufacture

Manufacture of Higher Straight-Chain Alcohols by the Ethylene Chain Growth Process... 

Washecfaeck, P. H, Manufacture of higher straight-chain alcohols by the ethylene dim> growth process", ACS 179th jtforioaaf Meeting, Houston, Texas (25/26 March 1980). 

A.luminum Jilkyl Chain Growth. Ethyl, Chevron, and Mitsubishi Chemical manufacture higher, linear alpha olefins from ethylene via chain growth on triethyl aluminum (15). The linear products are then used as oxo feedstock for both plasticizer and detergent range alcohols and because the feedstocks are linear, the linearity of the alcohol product, which has an entirely odd number of carbons, is a function of the oxo process employed. Alcohols are manufactured from this type of olefin by Sterling, Exxon, ICI, BASE, Oxochemie, and Mitsubishi Chemical. 

Plasticizer manufacturers have long recognized the desirable features of straight chain alcohols as plasticizer raw materials, but until recently, they depended entirely on limited production from natural sources for these products. Presently, mixtures of straight chain alcohols of even carbon number are available at commercially attractive prices from the ethylene growth process (2), but the pure alcohols are still too expensive generally to interest the plasticizer manufacture. 

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