Abstract: The invention discloses that hydrocarbon lubricants containing olefinic unsaturation participate in an olefin metathesis reaction with alkenes containing polar functional groups to provide an equilibrium mixture containing hydrocarbon lubricants containing the polar groups of the alkenes. The discovery is particularly applicable to the functionalization of near linear lubricants prepared from the oligomerization of propylene using surface deactivated zeolite or lubricants prepared by the oligomerization of C.sub.6 -C.sub.20 alpha olefins using coordination catalyst. Functionalized groups can be incorporated that impart a wide range of properties to the lubricant such as anti-wear or anti-corrosion resistance, or improve the compatibility of the lubricant with other additives.

Abstract: Olefin upgrading in plural reactors can achieve conversion of lower olefinic feedstock, such as propene, butene, etc., to valuable heavy hydrocarbons containing a lubricant fraction of high viscosity index. Other fuel products, such as (C.sub.10 -C.sub.20) distillate, gasoline and LPG may also be recovered as products. In a preferred process for converting lower olefinic feed to heavier hydrocarbons by contacting the feed with a shape selective medium pore acidic zeolite catalyst at elevated temperature and pressure the catalyst surface is rendered relatively inactive by adding to the olefinic feed an inactivating amount of a sterically-hindered organic base, whereby the catalyst is selectively surface-deactivated, to produce substantially linear heavier hydrocarbons rich in C.sub.10.sup.+ olefins. In the preferred multi-stage process the olefinic feed comprises C.sub.2 -C.sub.

Abstract: High VI lubes in high yields are obtained when lower or light olefins are polymerized over a ZSM-5 type catalyst the surface acidity of which has been inactivated by treatment with a suitable base material.