Abstract: Vinylidene chloride containing dichloroacetylene as an impurity is purified by treatment with a solution of a sulphide, polysulphide or hydrosulphide, for example an aqueous solution of ammonium hydrosulphide, sodium hydrosulphide or potassium hydrosulphide. The impure vinylidene chloride may be treated with the solution of sulphide, hydrosulphide, or polysulphide after isolation from the reaction mixture in which it is formed, or the vinylidene chloride may be treated in situ in the reaction mixture before isolation.

Abstract: A continuous process for preparing methane sulfonyl chloride by the reaction of methyl mercaptan with chlorine in the presence of an aqueous bath of hydrogen chloride at an elevated temperature.

Abstract: Biaryl coupling, particularly to form 2,4-difluorobiphenyl, is accomplished by diazotizing an aniline and coupling the benzenediazonium salt with a second aromatic component in the presence of a strong acid, an inert finely divided solid and copper powder or a copper salt.

Abstract: A method of cold forming ferrous metals is disclosed employing as a cold-forming lubricant a dry solid coating comprising a film of a chlorine-containing, film-forming polymer and a destabilizing agent applied to the surface of a ferrous metal workpiece, which surface is free from other coatings or surface treatment, said coating being applied as a liquid composition and to particular coating compositions.

Abstract: A Lewis base complex of a haloberyllium hydride is prepared by reacting a hydride of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal with a solution of beryllium halide in the presence of a Lewis base.

Abstract: Supported olefin conversion catalysts are activated by a method which comprises calcining the catalyst, impregnating the calcined catalyst with an alcoholic solution of an alkali metal salt, an alkali metal base or an alkali metal alcoholate and then recalcining the catalyst.

Abstract: Lubricants are stabilized with an organophosphorusbenzotriazole product, resulting in the ability to support higher load factors in the lubricated system.

Abstract: Novel ethynylaryl compounds and derivatives are described. Their use in the treatment of inflammation is also disclosed.

Abstract: Vinyl fluoride having an impurities content of less than 100 parts per million; a method of preparing vinyl fluoride with an impurities content of less than 100 parts per million which comprises contacting gaseous vinyl fluoride with a finely divided copper containing catalyst composition at a temperature of between 0.degree. and 100.degree. C.; a polyvinyl fluoride organosol having an organosol viscosity, determined in a 40 wt.% suspension in propylene carbonate of 20 to 100 cP; a method of producing a polyvinyl fluoride which when suspended in a suspension in polypropylene carbonate in an amount of 40 wt.% has an organosol viscosity of about 20 to 100 cP. which comprises heating vinyl fluoride in an aqueous medium containing a water soluble azo initiator at a pressure less than 140 kp./cm.sup.2 at a temperature of 60.degree.-85.degree. C.

Abstract: In the fractionation of 1,1-dichloroethane and 1,2-dichloroethane, at least a portion of the reboil heat requirements for the fractionation is provided by chlorinating ethylene in the fractional distillation tower. The fractionation is particularly applicable to the production of vinyl chloride by the use of molten salts wherein ethylene is present as a by-product.

Abstract: A lubricant-containing synthetic resin composition, prepared by pre-mixing 2 to 40% by volume of a lubricant consisting of at least one lubricant oil and/or at least one oilinessincreasing agent, with at least one carrier which is an organic or inorganic powder having a melting point higher than the molding temperature of a base synthetic resin, a specific surface area of at least 0.3 m.sup.2 /g and a limited amount of oil absorbed of at least 0.2 cc/carrier cc, and then mixing the mixture with the base synthetic resin, or mixing the lubricant, carrier and base synthetic resin simultaneously, and then molding the resulting mixture, the amount of the lubricant being not more than 10.0 times the limit amount of oil absorbed by the carrier.

Abstract: Unsaturated dimers which contain 2,4-diphenyl-4-methyl-1-pentene as their main component (i.e., in an amount of greater than 95%) are produced by reacting an .alpha.-methylstyrene at a temperature of from 20.degree. to 100.degree.C. in the presence of a sulfonic acid type cation-exchange resin catalyst and in the further presence of a primary or secondary monohydric alcohol containing from 2 to 5 carbon atoms. By this reaction, side products including a saturated dimer of 1,1,3-trimethyl-3-phenylindane, trimers and higher polymers are produced only in an extremely small amount. The unsaturated dimers are very useful as a molecular weight modifier when employed, instead of dodecylmercaptans, for the production of polymers such as an ABS resin, an AS resin, and the like.

Abstract: A method for preventing the polymerization of vinylidene chloride (1,1-dichloroethylene) during the manufacture thereof by the caustic dehyrochlorination at elevated temperatures of crude 1,1,2-trichloroethane which comprises admixing and maintaining in intimate association with the reaction mixture and its reaction products from about 50 to about 1500 ppm by weight of an amine having a boiling point between about 50.degree.C and 160.degree.C.

Abstract: A polyfluorinated butadiene having the formula ##EQU1## wherein n and m are integers from 1 to 10 and n=m or n.noteq.m, is prepared by reductive coupling, exemplarily with copper, of the corresponding 1,2-bis(perfluoroalkyl)iodoethylene having the formula CF.sub.3 (CF.sub.2).sub.n CH = CI--(CF.sub.2).sub.m CF.sub.3. This iodoethylene is conveniently prepared by a simple addition reaction between a perfluoroalkyl iodide and a perfluoroalkyl acetylene. The perfluoralkylated butadienes are useful as transporters of dissolved gas, particularly of oxygen as in blood substitutes.

Abstract: A method for producing alkyl halides by reacting the corresponding alkanol with at least 10% molar excess of hydrogen halide at a temperature of at least 50.degree.C. and under sufficient pressure to maintain the reactants dissolved in the liquid water of reaction (but insufficiently high to maintain the alkyl halide reaction product in the aqueous reaction mixture). The heat of reaction causes the alkyl halide to vaporize from the reaction zone along with the excess hydrogen halide. The resulting vapors are delivered to a packed tower where they are contacted with a stream of liquid reflux alkyl halide saturated with the hydrogen halide. The liquid reflux stream is obtained by condensing a portion of the gaseous or vaporous effluent from the tower. The gases or vapors from the reactor are dried by the reflux. In addition to drying the alkyl halide vapors, the tower provides an environment in which the by-product ether of the alkanol hydrochlorination is disassociated into alkyl halide and water.

Abstract: A process for preparing a bis-(bromomethyl)-tetrachlorobenzene which comprises contacting a bis-(chloromethyl)-tetrachlorobenzene with a bromide of an element of the first to the third group of the Periodic Table, preferably in a solvent of the bis-(chloromethyl)-tetrachlorobenzene which solvent is a non-solvent for the bis-(bromomethyl)-tetrachlorobenzene being prepared; a stabilized polymeric composition comprising a polymer and a bis-(bromomethyl)-tetrachlorobenzene, preferably containing additionally a compound of antimony or boron.

Abstract: Dehydrogenatable hydrocarbons are dehydrogenated by contacting them at dehydrogenation conditions with a nonacidic catalytic composite comprising a combination of catalytically effective amounts of a platinum or palladium component, an iridium component, a tin or lead component, and an alkali or alkaline earth component with a porous carrier material. A specific example of the nonacidic, multimetallic catalytic composite disclosed herein is a combination of a platinum component, an iridium component, a tin or lead component, and an alkali or alkaline earth component with an alumina carrier material. The amounts of the catalytically active components contained in this last composite are, on an elemental basis, 0.01 to 2 wt. % platinum, 0.01 to 2 wt. % iridium, 0.01 to 5 wt. % tin or lead, and 0.1 to 5 wt. % of the alkali or alkaline earth metal.

Abstract: A process for the simultaneous production of bromostyrene or dibromostyrene and of an alkyl bromide, which comprises reacting bromoethyl bromobenzene or bromoethyl dibromobenzene with an alkanol at an elevated temperature. When only these reactants are reacted, the temperature is between 400.degree.C and 550.degree.C; when the reaction is effected in the presence of a source of free radicals, the temperature used can be lower, and temperatures of about 300.degree.C are adequate.

Abstract: Ethynylbiphenyl derivatives of the general formula (I): ##SPC1##in which R represents a chlorine or bromine atom in the 2, 3 or 4 position. These compounds have anti-inflammatory activity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of ethylenic compounds and to certain novel ethylenic compounds produced by the process.The process comprises the reaction of an appropriate carbonyl compound with a sulphone to obtain an alcohol sulphone which is then reduced to obtain the desired ethylenic compound.