Abstract:
The present invention provides a process for producing a selected paraffin from a reaction mixture containing(i) an acceptor olefin having the carbon backbone structure of said selected paraffin;(ii) a donor paraffin having a carbon backbone structure different from that of said selected paraffin;(iii) less than about 10 mole percent molecular hydrogen; which process comprises the steps of contacting said reaction mixture with a heterogeneous catalyst comprising active carbon in the absence of an added catalytic metal or metal compound to convert at least a portion of said acceptor olefin to said selected paraffin and to dehydrogenate at least a portion of said donor paraffin.
Abstract:
This invention provides process embodiments for shape-selective oxidation of cyclic ketones to lactone and/or omega-hydroxycarboxylic acid products in the presence of a zeolite catalyst composition such as ZSM-5 or zeolite Beta.Cyclohexanone can be converted to epsilon-caprolactone or 6-hydroxycaproic acid as a main product under selected conditions.
Abstract:
The acidity of a zeolite catalyst is reduced by calcination in an essentially water-free atmosphere at temperatures above 700.degree. C., preferably from 725.degree. to 800.degree. C., to reduce the alpha value to less than about 10 percent of its original value. The low acidity catalysts produced in this way may be used for conversions requiring low acidity, shape selective catalysis, including dewaxing. The calcined, low acidity catalysts exhibit improved dewaxing activity.
Abstract:
There is provided a process for reacting phenol with butene or butanol over fairly large-pore zeolites to give butylphenol with high para-selectivity. Particular zeolites for use in this reaction include ZSM-12 and zeolite beta. A particular butene or butanol reactant is isobutanol. The product of this reaction may have a high content of the mono-alkylated, tert-butyl product.
Abstract:
The invention relates to producing ortho isopropyl phenol catalytically by contacting phenol with isopropanol or propylene, at a temperature of from about 200.degree. C. to about 300.degree. C., with ZSM-12 and zeolite Beta; and recovering ortho isopropyl phenol.
Abstract:
This invention provides a process in which phenol is reacted with hydrogen peroxide to form hydroquinone in the presence of a shape-selective zeolite catalyst such as HZSM-5. Essentially no catechol byproduct is produced.
Abstract:
Layered divalent metal hydrogen phosphate, MHPO.sub.4.nH.sub.2 O wherein M is a Group IIA or Group IIB element and n ranges from about 0 to 2, is prepared by hydrothermal treatment of an aqueous mixture containing a source of metal oxide, a source of phosphorus oxide and a source of hydrogen atoms, said aqueous mixture having an initial pH ranging between about 3 and 10.
Abstract:
The acidity of a zeolite catalyst is reduced by calcination in an essentially water-free atmosphere at temperatures above 700.degree. C., preferably from 725.degree. to 800.degree. C., to reduce the alpha value to less than 10 percent of its original value. The low acidity catalysts produced in this way may be used for isomerizing alkyl di-substituted aromatic compounds, especially xylenes, to products containing higher proportions of the para-isomers.
Abstract:
Hydrolysis of olefin oxides to their corresponding glycols was catalyzed by a steam stable zeolite, in its acid form, characterized by a constraint index within the range of about 1 to 12. Conversions of olefin oxide, in the presence of water, proceeded with minimal catalyst degradation. The acidity of the zeolite enabled the use of milder conditions than generally applied for this hydrolysis with no loss of desired selectivity. In addition, the described procedure offered the advantages typically associated with a heterogeneous catalyst (e.g., ease of separation, use of fixed bed reactor, etc.).