Abstract:
Described is a method of treating wood without pressure using compositions comprising aqueous solutions of one or more lanthanide derivative. Also described is a composition comprising wood and lanthanides or lanthanide derivatives.
Abstract:
A method for stabilizing diesel fuel for substantially reducing precipitation by adding to the diesel fuel an organometallic compound containing derivatives of one or more trivalent rare earth elements, excluding cerium.
Abstract:
A process is provided for preparing tricyclopentadienyl cerium as well as the mono and dicyclopentadienyl cerium intermediates which comprises reacting an alkali metal cyclopentadienide with ceric ammonium nitrate, in solution in an inert organic solvent in a manner to obtain either tricyclopentadienyl cerium or to form in sequence, and stepwise, monocyclopentadienyl cerium dinitrate, dicyclopentadienyl cerium mononitrate, and tricyclopentadienyl cerium, depending upon the order of addition of the reactants.
Abstract:
A process is provided for preparing ceric alkoxides, which comprises reacting ceric ammonium nitrate complexed with and in solution in ethylene or propylene glycol ether or tetrahydrofuran with an anhydrous alkali metal alkoxide at a temperature within the range from about -30.degree. C. to about 200.degree. C., preferably from 0.degree. to about 150.degree. C., until ceric alkoxide and the nitrate salt of the base are formed; the nitrate formed during the reaction is insoluble in the glycol ether and tetrahydrofuran and can be separated from the reaction mixture, and the cerium alkoxide when soluble in the glycol ether or tetrahydrofuran can be isolated from the solution pure, or as the complex with the alcohol or with the solvent, or in some cases the alkoxide can be used without separation from the reaction mixture in the presence of the nitrate.
Abstract:
Ceric hydrocarbyloxy nitrates having the general formula: ##STR1## are obtained by reaction of ceric ammonium nitrate with x moles of ammonia and an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic alcohol having from two to twenty carbon atoms, and are useful in the preparation of ceric hydrocarbyl oxides difficult or expensive of access by other routes, and in synthesis of other organic ceric compounds.
Abstract translation:通过使硝酸铈铵与x摩尔氨和具有2-20个碳原子的脂族,脂环族或芳族醇反应得到具有以下通式的具有以下通式的二氧化铈碳酸氧化的硝酸酯:< IMAGE> x = 1,2或3,并且是有用的 在制备难以或昂贵通过其他途径进入的铈烃基氧化物,以及其它有机铈化合物的合成中。
Abstract:
A process is provided for preparing colloidal dispersions of alcohol-dispersible association complexes of ceric dioxide and a hydroxyphenyl carboxylic acid having from about seven to about twenty carbon atoms in a molar ratio CeO.sub.2 /acid of at least about 6:1 which comprises:(1) mixing(a) ceric dioxide comprising ammonium nitrate or ammonium and nitrate ions in an amount within the range from about 3 to about 14% by weight of the ceric dioxide and a member selected from the group consisting of water, methanol, acetic acid and mixtures thereof in an amount usually from about 10 to about 60 g per mole of CeO.sub.2, sufficient to effect reaction with(b) a hydroxyphenyl carboxylic acid having from about seven to about twenty carbon atoms(c) an aliphatic alcohol, such as methanol, isopropanol, 2-ethoxy ethanol, etc.at a temperature within the range from room temperature to about 100.degree. C., thereby effecting dispersion of the ceric dioxide in the aliphatic alcohol.
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A process is provided for the preparation of hydroxy benzene carboxaldehydes having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkoxy, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkoxyalkyl, fluoroalkyl, and hydroxyalkyl oxyalkylene having from one to about twenty carbon atoms; hydroxyalkyl having at least two to about twenty carbon atoms; hydroxy; aldehyde CHO; and halogen;n.sub.1, n.sub.2 and n.sub.3 are zero or 1; and at least one of n.sub.1, n.sub.2 and n.sub.3 is 1; andx is zero, 1, 2, 3 or 4, which comprises:(1) condensing with a formaldehyde compound a phenol having the formula: ##STR2## wherein R is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkoxy, hydroxyalkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkoxyalkyl, fluoroalkyl, and hydroxyalkyl oxyalkylene having from one to about twenty carbon atoms; hydroxy; and halogen; andx is zero, 1, 2, 3 or 4,and unsubstituted in at least one ortho or para position in an aqueous reaction medium comprising phenol:HCHO in a molar ratio within the range from about 1:0.1 to about 1:3 and alkali in a molar ratio alkali:phenol within the range from about 1:0.1 to about 1:2 and an alkali concentration not exceeding 30% by weight at a temperature within the range from about 0.degree. to about 120.degree. C. and obtaining a reaction mixture comprising a mixture of monomethylol and polymethylol phenols having the formula: ##STR3## wherein R is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkoxy, hydroxyalkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkoxyalkyl, fluoroalkyl, and hydroxyalkyl oxyalkylene having from one to about twenty carbon atoms; hydroxy; and halogen;n.sub.1, n.sub.2 and n.sub.3 are zero or 1; and at least one of n.sub.1, n.sub.2 and n.sub.3 is 1; andx is zero, 1, 2, 3 or 4;(2) subjecting the reaction mixture without separation of the monomethylol species from polymetholol species to oxidation under conditions favoring oxidation of methylol species to the corresponding aldehyde species in the presence of oxygen and an amount of alkali that is at least stoichiometrically equal to the amount of phenol and a platinum or palladium oxidation catalyst, preferably but optionally with a promoter selected from the group consisting of bismuth, lead, silver, tellurium, cadmium, and tin in the form of the metal and/or compounds thereof at a temperature within the range from about 0.degree. to about 100.degree. C. and a pH within the range from about 11 to about 13.5; and then(3) separating and recovering the desired aldehyde in the reaction mixture.A process also is provided for selectively decarbonylating any undesired aldehyde species to remove all or selected aldehyde groups in certain ring positions, either to yield more desirable aldehyde species or for recycling as starting material.
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An improved process for producing meta-phenoxy benzoic acids and their lower alkyl esters in improved yields and with higher selectivity by reacting an alkali metal phenate with a lower alkyl ester of meta-halobenzoic acid in the presence of a copper sulfate catalyst.
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A process is provided for preparing methyl heptenone by reacting a ketone mixture comprising prenyl-substituted methyl pentenones with a polyfunctional amine, optionally in the presence of an inorganic alkali. The yield of methyl heptenone can be increased by hydrolysis of the reaction product with water.
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A process for preparing allylic alcohols from allylic halides is provided by way of the intermediate formation of an ester in the presence of a water-insoluble ketone forming an azeotrope in water followed by saponification of the ester with alkali metal hydroxide, drying the alkali metal carboxylic acid salt formed during the saponification by azeotropic distillatiion with the ketone, thus obviating expensive separate recovery facilities and handling of the dried alkali metal carboxyolate salt. The overall process amounts to a hydrolysis of the allylic halide with aqueous alkali metal hydroxide and one reactor can serve for the whole process.