Abstract: Compound represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein each X is independently chloro or bromo is employed as a pyrolysis promoter in the pyrolysis of 1,2-dichloroethane to vinyl chloride.

Abstract: A hot aqueous waste, containing solids, such as tailings from the hot water extraction of bitumen from tar sands, is contacted with air to increase the heat and moisture content of the air, followed by contacting the heated and moisturized air with water to condense moisture from the air and increase the heat content of the water, with the heated water containing condensed moisture being employed as make-up hot water in the extraction. Water recovery can be further increased by subjecting at least a portion of the tailings, prior to contact with air, to an evaporation procedure wherein heat requirements are provided by indirect heat transfer with steam. Evaporate and condensed steam are employed in the extraction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for alkylating halogenated and trifluoromethylated benzene compounds. In that process, an alkyl halide is reacted with a benzene compound having two or three substituents selected from the group consisting of the halogens and the trifluoromethyl group, and also having a hydrogen atom whose two ortho positions are occupied by two of the said substituents. The reaction is carried out in the presence of at least one alkali metal amide and at least one agent that complexes with the cation of the alkali metal amide.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of benzal chlorides from benzotrichlorides, according to which benzotrichlorides are reacted with thiols in the presence of metal salts at elevated temperatures.

Abstract: In this method of producing 1,2-dichloroethane from ethylene and chlorine gas in an approximately equimolar ratio at reaction pressures between 2 and 20 bar, at ethylene dichloride boiling temperatures between 105.degree. and 225.degree. C., in the presence of catalysts acting as Lewis acids, the catalyst-free ethylene dichloride vapors produced in the evaporative cooling are withdrawn and then condensed and cooled, and liquid catalyst-containing ethylene dichloride is also withdrawn separately.All of the gaseous chlorine input, having a purity of about 90 to 100% by volume, is introduced into a condensed and cooled circulating stream of ethylene dichloride. The ethylene dichloride stream containing chlorine is brought to the reaction pressure, and then catalyst-containing ethylene dichloride withdrawn from the reactor is admixed.

Abstract: A trace amount of free chlorine, present along with comparable amounts of ethylene, oxygen and water vapor in the ethylene dichloride (EDC) effluent from a direct chlorination reactor, may be effectively scavenged by exposing the effluent to ultraviolet ("u-v") light having a wavelength less than about 4000.ANG. which is absorbed by the chlorine, but to which both ethylene and EDC are essentially transparent. In this process, contaminant chlorine in substantially pure (99..sup.+ %) EDC is catalytically activated and reacts with EDC to form an unwanted byproduct, namely 1,1,2-trichloroethane ("triane"). The process is effective in either the gaseous phase or the liquid phase.

Abstract: A compound of the formula: ##STR1## where X and Y are independently chlorine or trifluoromethyl.

Abstract: A process for the work-up of chlorination residues by dissolving the same at temperatures between 100.degree. and 180.degree. C. in chlorine- and oxygen-containing hydrocarbons having a ratio by weight of hydrogen to chlorine of 0.028-0.06:1, a ratio by weight of oxygen:carbon of 0.0038-0.0089:1, and an atomic ratio of carbon:hydrogen of 1:1.1-1.9 and/or in hydrocarbons, boiling between 160.degree. and 380.degree. C. at one bar abs. and having an atomic ratio carbon:hydrogen of 1:1.85-2.0 so as to obtain a liquid preparation having a ratio by weight of hydrogen:chlorine of 0.028-0.05:1.

Abstract: Chloroprene is produced by reacting 3,4-dichlorobutene-1 in an aqueous solution of an alkali metal hydroxide in the presence of at least one of furfuryl alcohol and tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol preferably at 20.degree. to 70.degree. C.

Abstract: Method of preparing methyl halides over mixtures of methyl halides with halogenated ethanes by reaction between carbon monoxide, hydrogen and a hydrogen halide in the presence of a metal carbonyl complex catalyst at a temperature below 200.degree. C.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for preparing 1,1,2,3-tetrachloropropene comprising allylic rearrangement of 2,3,3,3-tetrachloropropene using a substantially anhydrous ferric chloride catalyst. Alternatively, 1,1,2,3-tetrachloropropene is prepared by dehydrochlorination of 1,1,1,2,3-pentachloropropane using a ferric chloride catalyst. Process schemes commencing with the preparation of the precursor 1,1,1,3-tetrachloropropane by reaction of ethylene with carbon tetrachloride are also disclosed.

Abstract: A telomerization process comprises reacting chlorotrifluoroethylene with bisfluoroxydifluoromethane. The telomerization reaction is conducted in either liquid chlorotrifluoroethylene without a solvent or in solution. The telomers thus formed can optionally be fluorinated by reaction with a suitable fluorinating agent to improve their stability.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of an aromatic trifluoromethyl compound which comprises contacting an aromatic compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 denotes hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, aryloxy, arylthio, polyhalogenoalkoxy or polyhalogenoalkylthio and the aromatic substituents R.sup.1 can in turn be substituted by halogen, alkyl, polyhalogenoalkyl, polyhalogenoalkoxy, polyhalogenoalkylthio, nitro, chlorocarbonyl or chlorosulfonyl, and R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are independently hydrogen, halogen or alkyl and two adjacent radicals of the group R.sup.1 to R.sup.5 can conjointly form a three-membered to five-membered alkylene radical, with carbon tetrachloride and hydrogen fluoride at a temperature in the range of 50.degree. C. to 140.degree. C. Certain new aromatic trifluoromethyl compounds which can prepared by such a process are also disclosed.

Abstract: A solid lubricant, consisting of solid perfluorocarbons, with linear or substantially linear carbon atoms chain, containing from 10 to 20 carbon atoms and having a value of surface tension ranging from 13 to 15 dyne/cm, is obtained by dimerization or co-dimerization of perfluorocarbonsulphonyl halogenidesC.sub.n F.sub.2n+1 SO.sub.2 X(in which X represents an atom of halogen), having a linear or substantially linear chain of carbon atoms and bearing the --SO.sub.2 X group at one end of the chain, operating at high temperature, with short reaction times, and preferably in the presence of a metal catalyst.The solid perfluorocarbon lubricant can be used, if desired as a mixture with paraffinic wax, on sliding surfaces, particularly consisting of a polymeric material either porous or made porous.

Abstract: A mixture containing dispersed phase and continuous aqueous phase, with particulate solids being part of either or both phases, is separated by passing it one or more times through apertures in an endless oleophilic conveyor belt in a separation zone wherein bitumen phase adheres to the belt and bitumen adhering to the belt is conveyed to one or more bitumen treatment zones and to a recovery zone where bitumen is removed from the belt. The end rolls of the belt are not immersed in a water bath; however, portions of the belt, while in the separation, treatment and recovery zones, may be partly or completely in an aqueous environment. More than one set of separation, treatment and recovery zones may be used on the same endless belt conveyor. Also, a mixture containing dispersed aqueous phase and continuous bitumen or oil phase, and possibly gas, is deposited onto an apertured oleophilic endless belt conveyor and is treated in one or more treatment zones and is then removed from the belt.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a method of preparing alkaline metal salts of organic diamines. The method comprises, in brief, reacting the alkaline metal with a molar excess of the diamine in the presence of a catalytic proportion of a transition metal compound, at a temperature of from about 20.degree. C. to reflux temperature for the reaction mixture.

Abstract: A process for consecutive-competitive gas phase halogenation of organic compounds, i.e. alkanes, alkenes and benzene, alkyl benzenes and alkenyl benzenes containing labile hydrogens and having no more than 12 and 9 carbon atoms, respectively, in a thin reaction film on the surface of a porous barrier for production of highly halogenated products by substantial suppression of diffusion of partially halogenated intermediates away from the reaction film is disclosed.

Abstract: A catalyst for removing acetylenic impurities from gaseous organic product streams, comprising at least Fe and Ni, other elements from Groups 8, 1b, 2b, 4b, 6b and 7b of the Periodic Table, an alkaline earth metal and an alkali metal.

Abstract: Chloroprene is produced by a dehydrochlorination of 3,4-dichlorobutene-1 by contacting 3,4-dichlorobutene with a metal alkoxide of tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol. The reaction mixture in a form of a slurry obtained by the dehydrochlorination is distilled to separate lower boiling components comprising chloroprene and the unreacted 3,4-dichlorobutene-1 as main components from higher boiling components comprising tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol and a metal chloride as main components.

Abstract: A 3-halo-2-methylphenylmagnesium halide is cross-coupled with a halobenzene using nickel(II) acetylacetonate as catalyst, producing a 3-halo-2-methyl[1,1'-biphenyl]. The amount of catalyst should be greater than 0.01 mole percent, but not more than 0.1 mole percent, based on the 3-halo-2-methylphenylmagnesium halide to achieve the best yields.