Patent 7227044 was granted and assigned to Kao Corporation on June, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates to a cycloalkanone composition which contains cycloalkanone (1) in an amount of 70 wt % or more based on the composition, wherein the content of a dimer of a cycloalkanone represented by formula (2) is 0.055 or less in terms of weight ratio to the cycloalkanone (1), a process for producing the same, a process for producing a composition containing alkyl acetate (5) by using the cycloalkanone composition, and an alkyl acetate composition obtained by the process