Patent 7868192 was granted and assigned to Kao Corporation on January, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates to a process for producing glycidol from glycerol carbonate by subjecting the glycerol carbonate to decarboxylation reaction in the presence of a solvent containing no active hydrogen. In the process, glycidol can be produced from glycerol carbonate as a raw material of the glycidol with a high selectivity.