Abstract: The present invention provides adamantane or diamantane compositions that are useful as a dielectric material in microelectronic applications such as microchips.

Abstract: Provided are methods of producing refined silane compounds comprising providing a starting composition comprising a silane ester and an acidic halide and contacting the starting composition with an alkali metal salt selected from the group consisting of alkali metal salts derived from amides, imides, oxazolidinones, amines, sulfonamides, and combinations of two or more thereof.

Abstract: In a process comprising synthesizing pyranes including [R—(R*,R*)]-N-[3-[1-[5,6-dihydro-4-hydroxy-2-oxo-6-(2-phenylethyl)-6-propyl-2H-pyran-3-yl]propyl]phenyl]-5-(trifluoromethyl)-2-pyridinesulfonamide the present invention comprises the improvements comprising: (a) providing a racemic mixture of 3-hydroxy-3-(2-phenylethyl)-hexanoate ethyl acetate by reacting said 1-phenyl-hexan-3-one with ethylbromoacetate under Reformatsky conditions; and (b) separating (R)-3-hydroxy-3-(2-phenylethyl)-hexanoic acid in enantiomeric excess by saponification and reverse resolution of the racemate of step (a) to produce a resolved product. In addition, the present invention comprises a reverse resolution process for separating an enantiomer from a mixture of enantiomers.

Abstract: Provided are methods of producing phosphitylated compounds, including 3′-O-phosphoramidites, comprising the step of reacting a hydroxyl-containing compound with a phosphitylating agent in the presence of a phosphitylation activator selected from the group consisting of: (1) acid-base complexes derived from an amine base of Formula I 1

Abstract: A process for the preparation of chlorofluoronitrobenzenes and difluoronitrobenzenes, which comprises heating dichloronitrobenzene to not more than 200.degree. C. in excess with an alkali metal fluoride having a total water content of about 0.2 to about 2.5% by weight in the presence of a quaternary ammonium and/or phosphonium salt, crown ether and/or polyethylene glycol dimethyl ether as catalyst in the absence of a solvent.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of chlorofluoronitrobenzenes in high yields, by reacting dichloronitrobenzenes with alkali metal fluorides having a water content of up to about 2.5% by weight in the presence of a quaternary ammonium and/or phosphonium salt, a crown ether and/or polyethylene glycol dimethyl ether as catalyst in the presence of an aprotic solvent, the boiling point of which is below the reaction temperature under the pressure conditions chosen, at temperatures of about 125.degree. to about 200.degree. C.

Abstract: Fluorinated benzils and a process for their preparation A process for the preparation of fluorinated benzils of the formula (1) ##STR1## in which X.sub.1 -X.sub.6, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine or bromine atoms, or alkyl(C.sub.1 -C.sub.10), phenyl or naphthyl groups which may be substituted, or are groups reducing the electron density, at least one of the substituents X.sub.1 -X.sub.6 being a fluorine atom, by reacting 1 mol of a benzil of the formula (1), in which X.sub.1 -X.sub.6 and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 have the abovementioned meanings, with the proviso that at least one of the substituents X.sub.1 -X.sub.6 is a chlorine atom, with about 0.8 to about 2.5 mol of potassium fluoride, rubidium fluoride, cesium fluoride or tetraalkyl (C.sub.1 -C.sub.18)-ammonium fluoride per chlorine atom to be exchanged, at temperatures of from about 100.degree. C. to about 280.degree. C.

Abstract: Process for the preparation, in high yields, of difluorobenzaldehydes of the formula (1) ##STR1## in which the second fluorine atom is in the 4 or 6 position, by reacting a dichlorobenzaldehyde of the formula (2) ##STR2## in which the second chlorine atom is in the 4 or 6 position, with an alkali metal fluoride in a dipolar aprotic solvent in the presence of an ethylene glycol dialkyl ether as catalyst of the formula (3)RO--(CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --O).sub.n --R (3)in which R is a methyl, ethyl or propyl or isopropyl group and n is a number from 1 to about 50, at temperatures of about 160.degree. C. to about 250.degree. C.