RETRACTED: Alternative technologies for the producing phenol (Retracted article. See vol. 79, pg. 1588, 2009)

This paper presents an analysis of available alternative phenol production technologies that bypass acetone. It is demonstrated that development of these technologies, from both the scientific and engineering points of view, has not achieved a level that would anticipate their commercial implementation in near future. On the other hand, the modern cumene- process based technologies for combined production of phenol and acetone have achieved a maximum possible magnitude of selectivity, as well as potentially highest levels of process and environmental safety, and thus remain prevailing methods for producing phenol.