Patent 7767770 was granted and assigned to Rohm and Haas on August, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for producing a mixture of ethylene and carbon monoxide by contacting ethane and an oxygen source with a catalyst comprising synthetic cryptomelane or octahedral molecular sieve. The method further comprises condensing the alkyl propionate with formaldehyde to produce an alkyl methacrylate.