Patents Assigned to Sun Refining and Marketing Copany
  • Hydrocarbon oxidations catalyzed by azide-activated metal coordination complexes
    Patent number: 4895682
    Abstract: Hydrocarbons, and particularly lower molecular weight alkanes and cycloalkanes, may readily be oxidixed with air or O.sub.2 to form such products as alcohols, ketones, and the like selectively in high yields when there is employed as the catalyst a highly active azide-activated metal coordination complex having the structure ##STR1## where M is a transition metal; " " is a ligand; and X is azide. The invention is also directed to certain novel azide-activated metal coordination complex catalysts per se.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1990
    Assignee: Sun Refining and Marketing Copany
    Inventors: Paul E. Ellis, Jr., James E. Lyons, Harry K. Myers, Jr.