Patents Represented by Attorney Bernard Francis Crowe

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  • Oxidation of ketones to esters
    Patent number: 4160769
    Abstract: Cyclic ketones can be oxidized in high yields to the corresponding cyclic esters with hydrogen peroxide, selenium dioxide catalyst and a base. By-products are held to a minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1979
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventor: David P. Higley
  • Method for the preparation of quinoline and aniline compounds
    Patent number: 4157445
    Abstract: Quinoline and aniline compounds have been synthesized from aromatic nitro compounds and ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbons in the presence of complexes of Group VIII metals used as catalysts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1979
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Fitton, Edward A. Rick, Kurt Weinberg
  • Preparation of 2-cyclopentenyl ethers
    Patent number: 4156097
    Abstract: Bis-(2-cyclopentenyl) ethers are prepared by contacting a 2-cyclopentenyl carboxylate or 2-cyclopentenol with an aqueous acid solution having a pH in the range of about 1.0 to about 3.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1979
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Phillips, Walter J. Skraba
  • Cyclopentadienyl chromium oxides
    Patent number: 4153576
    Abstract: Cyclopentadienyl chromium alkyl/aryl oxides and siloxides have been synthesized which when deposited on silica and treated with a silane show catalytic activity in the polymerization of ethylene. These chromium compounds also can be used for scavenging oxygen and volatile sulfur compounds from various liquid and gaseous streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1979
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick J. Karol, Chisung Wu, Walter T. Reichle, Norma J. Maraschin
  • Titanium-modified silyl chromate catalysts for ethylene polymerization
    Patent number: 4152502
    Abstract: A catalyst for the preparation of ethylene polymers having higher melt indexes comprises a silyl chromate deposited on a silica support containing both aluminum and titanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1979
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Isaac J. Levine, Frederick J. Karol
  • Metal lubricants
    Patent number: 4146488
    Abstract: Metal lubricants having solubility in soft or hard water, excellent cutting, grinding, forming and machine lubrication are provided by poly(oxyalkylene) compounds grafted with about 3 to 15% by weight of acrylic or methacrylic acid followed by neutralization with an alkanolamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1979
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventor: William H. Martin
  • Stable, water-borne vinyl chloride resin emulsion compositions
    Patent number: 4141870
    Abstract: Stable, water-borne emulsion compositions particularly suitable for coating metallic substrates have been prepared from solid vinyl chloride resins containing a limited amount of an oxygenated hydrocarbon solvent, non-ionic surfactant and a normally liquid urea-formaldehyde resin all emulsified to afford an internal solids content of up to about 50 weight percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 27, 1979
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventor: Richard J. Burns
  • Glass bottle coating compositions
    Patent number: 4135014
    Abstract: Glass bottle coating compositions have been formulated from ethylene copolymers containing ethylene, alkyl acrylate, acrylic acid and monoalkyl acrylamide moieties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: George A. Salensky, Stanley H. Richardson
  • Preparation of 2-cyclopentenyl ethers
    Patent number: 4134924
    Abstract: Bis-(2-cyclopentenyl) ethers are prepared by contacting a 2-cyclopentenyl carboxylate or 2-cyclopentenol with an aqueous acid solution having a pH in the range of about 1.0 to about 3.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Phillips, Walter J. Skraba
  • High temperature resistant hot melt sealant
    Patent number: 4133796
    Abstract: Hot melt compositions having good mechanical properties at elevated temperatures after post curing have been prepared by blending ethylene copolymers with a rubber, a phenolic resin, epoxy resin, and a filler formulated to 100% by weight solids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventor: Allan R. Bullman
  • Hydrogel dough composition for fabrication of foamed articles
    Patent number: 4127547
    Abstract: Foamed, low density polymeric articles have been fabricated from a non-tacky hydrogel obtained by blending normally solid thermoplastic polymer resin with a normally liquid organic solvent and water, at lower molding temperatures and energy requirements than those conventionally used in melt extrusion foam processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1978
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventor: Walter H. Smarook
  • Cyclopentadienyl chromium oxides
    Patent number: 4115425
    Abstract: Cyclopentadienyl chromium alkyl/aryl oxides and siloxides have been synthesized which when deposited on silica and treated with a silane show catalytic activity in the polymerization of ethylene. These chromium compounds also can be used for scavenging oxygen and volatile sulfur compounds from various liquid and gaseous streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick John Karol, Chisung Wu, Walter Thomas Reichle, Norma Jean Maraschin
  • Aldol reactions catalyzed by alkylene oxide-salt complexes
    Patent number: 4102930
    Abstract: Bases generated by the interaction of alkylene oxides and salts provide metal-free catalysis of the aldol reaction. No added solvent is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1978
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventor: Mary Lease Deem
  • Aldol reactions with bifunctional co-catalysts
    Patent number: 4101586
    Abstract: Reaction rates of the base-catalyzed aldol reactions are enhanced by employing co-catalysts containing imidazolyl and carboxyl functionalities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1978
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Mary Lease Deem, Kenneth Charles Stueben
  • Preparation of modified and activated chromocene catalysts for ethylene polymerization
    Patent number: 4101445
    Abstract: Ethylene polymerization catalysts are prepared by depositing a chromocene compound on a support with a titanium compound and activating the final blend at 300.degree. C. to about 1000.degree. C. A fluoriding agent can be optionally added where a narrower molecular weight distribution of the polyethylene to be obtained is desired. Catalysts with good reproducibility, when prepared by this method, show particular utility in production of polyethylene by a fluid bed process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1978
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Isaac Jacob Levine, Frederick John Karol
  • Titanium-modified silyl chromate catalysts for ethylene polymerization
    Patent number: 4100105
    Abstract: A catalyst for the preparation of ethylene polymers having higher melt indexes comprises a silyl chromate deposited on a silica support containing both aluminum and titanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1978
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Isaac Jacob Levine, Frederick John Karol
  • Olefin polymerization process and catalyst therefor
    Patent number: 4100337
    Abstract: Catalysts for the polymerization of ethylene and the copolymerization of ethylene with other olefins have been prepared by depositing an organo-chromium compound on a silica support which has been fluorided at low temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1978
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Allen Noshay, Frederick John Karol
  • Catalyst for aldol condensations
    Patent number: 4086188
    Abstract: Aldol condensation catalysts have been prepared by interacting stoichiometric amounts of a water soluble salt of a Group II metal and a water soluble aluminum salt with a stoichiometric amount of an alkaline metal or alkaline earth metal, water soluble hydroxide and doping the washed slurry which precipitates with a water soluble lithium or zinc salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventor: Walter Thomas Reichle
  • Protective coatings for ferrous metals
    Patent number: 4084971
    Abstract: A metal protecting composition is obtained by blending zinc a partially-hydrolyzed organic silicate and a fatty acid amidoamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1978
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Ginsberg
  • Process for the synthesis of hydroxyethyl cellulose with improved resistance to enzyme catalyzed hydrolysis
    Patent number: 4084060
    Abstract: A process for the synthesis of hydroxyethyl cellulose having improved resistance of enzyme catalyzed hydrolysis is provided by employment of a controlled, optimum amount of available water for swelling the cellulose in aqueous caustic reaction medium in hydroxy ethoxylation sequences of first high and then low ratios of caustic:cellulose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1978
    Assignee: Union Carbide Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Edward Glass, Jr., Roy Gale Lowther