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Pure butadiene cannot be separated from the C4-cut by distillation. Both 1,3- butadiene and trans-2-butene form azeotropes with n-butane; vinylacetylene likewise forms azeotropes with cis- or trans-2-butenes, differing only slightly in boiling point from butadiene. Finally, the boiling points of i-butene and 1-butene are so near that their distillative separation is uneconomic (Table 3.1).
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Schulze, J., Homann, M. (1989). Processes of Separation and Transformation in C4-Chemistry. In: C4-Hydrocarbons and Derivatives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73858-6_4
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