Patent 7863467 was granted and assigned to Sumitomo Chemical on January, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates to a method for producing propylene oxide, characterized in that peroxide is reacted with propylene in the presence of a titanosilicate catalyst which has an X-ray diffraction pattern of the values indicated below and is represented by the formula.xTiO2·(1−x)SiO2 (In the formula, x denotes a numerical value of 0.0001 to 0.1.)X-ray diffraction patterns(interplanar spacing of lattice d/Å)13.2±0.612.3±0.311.0±0.39.0±0.36.8±0.33.9±0.23.5±0.13.4±0.1.