Isobutylene Considerable Industrial Value
Get Latest PricePayment Type: | L/C,T/T |
Incoterm: | FOB,CFR,CIF,EXW |
Transportation: | Ocean,Land,Air,Express |
Port: | Dalian,Tianjin,Shanghai |
Payment Type: | L/C,T/T |
Incoterm: | FOB,CFR,CIF,EXW |
Transportation: | Ocean,Land,Air,Express |
Port: | Dalian,Tianjin,Shanghai |
Place Of Origin: China
Grade: Industrial Grade
Boiling Point: 19.4°F (-7°C)
Molar Mass: 56.106 g/mol
Density: 588 kg/m³
Chemical Formula: C4H8
UN Number: 1055; In Liquefied petroleum gas: 1075
Flash Point: flammable gas
Solubility In Water: Insoluble
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Isobutylene is a hydrocarbon with the formula (CH₃)₂C=CH₂. It is a four-carbon branched alkene, one of the four isomers of butylene. It is a colorless flammable gas, and is of considerable industrial value.
Isobutylene is a colorless gas with a faint petroleum-like odor. For transportation it may be stenched. It is shipped as a liquefied gas under its own vapor pressure. Contact with the liquid can cause frostbite. It is easily ignited. Its vapors are heavier than air and a flame can flash back to the source of leak very easily. The leak can either be a liquid or vapor leak. It can asphyxiate by the displacement of air. Under prolonged exposure to fire or heat the containers may rupture violently and rocket. It is used in the production of isooctane, a high octane aviation gasoline.
Polymer and Chemical Grade Isobutylene is typically obtained by dehydrating tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) or catalytic dehydrogenation of isobutane (Catofin or similar processes). Gasoline additives methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE), respectively, are produced by reacting methanol or ethanol with isobutylene contained in butene streams from olefin steam crackers or refineries, or with isobutylene from dehydrated TBA. Isobutylene is not isolated from the olefin or refinery butene stream before the reaction as separating the ethers from the remaining butenes is simpler. Isobutylene can also be produced in high purities by "back-cracking" MTBE or ETBE at high temperatures and then separating the isobutylene by distillation from methanol or
Isobutylene is a byproduct in the ethenolysis of diisobutylene to prepare neohexene:
(CH3)3C-CH=C(CH3)2 + CH2=CH2 → (CH3)3C-CH=CH2 + (CH3)2C=CH2
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