Abstract: The invention relates to highly filterable polyvinyl polypyrrolidone particles and to the process for improving filterability of standard polyvinyl polypyrrolidone granules which comprises treating granular polyvinyl polypyrrolidone, containing a minor amount of non-cross-linked and/or unsaturated sites and having a number average molecular weight greater than 100,000, with ozone at a temperature selected from within the ranges consisting of from about -15.degree. C. to 35.degree. C. and from 85.degree. C. to about 150.degree. C. and collecting the ozone treated product, which has a flow rate index (FRI) increased by at least 25%.

Abstract: This invention relates to the reaction products of butyrolactone and an aliphatic amine utilizable as a chain extender and curing agent for castable polyurethanes and to the process employing said products in preparing castable polyurethane elastomers and to the process for preparing the butyrolactone amine adducts. The aliphatic amine reactants employed in preparing the butyrolactoneamine adducts are defined by the formula: ##STR1## wherein X is amino (--NH.sub.2) or hydroxy (--OH); R is hydrogen (--H) or methyl (--CH.sub.3) and n has a value of 1 to 2, which amines are reacted with butyrolactone in a mole ratio of between about 1:1 and about 1:3 to provide a curing agent having superior mechanical properties and having the formula: ##STR2## wherein R is hydrogen or methyl, R' is a hydroxy group or ##STR3## and n has a value of 1 or 2.

Abstract: An aqueous composition for inhibiting the corrosion of metals placed therein is described. The composition comprises a non-oxidizing acid, and, as a corrosion inhibitor, an effective amount of a 3-dialkylamino-3-phenylethenylprop-1-yne.

Abstract: An aqueous composition for inhibiting the corrosion of metals is described. The composition comprises a non-oxidizing acid, and, as a corrosion inhibitor, an effective amount of a 3-dialkylamino-3-(1-ethylpentyl)prop-1-yne.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved method for the vinylation of pyrrolidone with acetylene in the presence of an alkali metal salt of said pyrrolidone as a catalyst, by the addition of between about 0.2 and about 8 weight-%, based on total feed, of a polyoxyalkylene glycol; a polyoxyalkylene phenol, optionally substituted with an alkyl group; a polyoxyalkylene ether or mixtures thereof; said polyoxyalkylene compound having a number average molecular weight of between about 175 and 2,000 and containing between 4 and 40 oxyethylene and/or oxypropylene units. The invention also pertains to a novel coacting catalyst composition for use in vinylation reactions comprising said alkali metal salt of said pyrrolidone in admixture with said polyoxyalkylene compound.

Abstract: An aqueous composition for inhibiting the corrosion of metals placed therein is described. The composition comprises a non-oxidizing acid, and, as a corrosion inhibitor, an effective amount of a 3-di(higher)alkylamino-3-phenylprop-1-yne.

Abstract: A corrosion inhibitor for aqueous solutions of mineral acids consisting essentially of the reaction product obtained by the catalytic ethynylation of a dialkylamine, a substituted benzaldehyde and acetylene, said reaction product being a complex material which contains predominately a 3-dialkylamino-3-(substituted phenyl) prop-l-yne.

Abstract: An aqueous composition for inhibiting the corrosion of metals placed therein is described. The composition comprises a non-oxidizing acid and, as a corrosion inhibitor, an effective amount of a 3-dialkylamino-3-(substituted phenyl)-prop-1-yne.

Abstract: This invention describes a method of regenerating the activity of deactivated supported-nickel catalysts that have lost activity after use as a hydrogenation catalyst in the finishing stage of the process of conversion of butynediol to butanediol. The method comprises contacting said deactivated catalyst with hydrogen at a temperature of about 200.degree. to 500.degree. C. to convert surface polymers to gaseous compounds and removing said gaseous compounds from the vicinity of the thus-treated catalyst. In the preferred form of the invention, in a single step, a slow stream of hydrogen is passed through the deactivated catalyst in situ as a fixed bed and the gaseous compounds are removed simultaneously in the hydrogen stream.

Abstract: Alkenes and/or alkadienes are contacted with molecular oxygen and an oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst consisting essentially of silver, molybdenum and oxygen, and at least one promotor selected from the group consisting of phosphorus, arsenic, antimony and bismuth.

Abstract: Alkenes and/or alkadienes are contacted with molecular oxygen and an oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst consisting essentially of silver, molybdenum and oxygen, and at least one promotor selected from the group consisting of phosphorus, arsenic, antimony and bismuth.

Abstract: Alkenes and/or alkadienes are contacted with molecular oxygen and an oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst consisting essentially of silver, molybdenum and oxygen, with the silver-to-molybdenum atom ratio being in the range of about 0.25:1 to about 10:1 to produce furan compounds.

Abstract: Alkenes and/or alkadienes are contacted with molecular oxygen and an oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst consisting essentially of silver, molybdenum and oxygen, with the silver-to-molybdenum atom ratio being in the range of about 0.25:1 to about 10:1 to produce furan compounds.

Abstract: Alkenes and/or alkadienes are contacted with molecular oxygen and an oxidative dehydrogenation catalyst consisting essentially of silver, phosphorus and oxygen, with the silver-to-phosphorus atom ratio being in the range of about 0.25:1 to about 10:1 to produce furan compounds.

Abstract: 2-Pyrrolidone is purified by contact with particulate calcium oxide for a sufficient time at elevated temperatures followed by distilling and condensing the purified 2-pyrrolidone.

Abstract: This invention relates to catalytic hydrogenation of organic compounds containing carbonyl groups, and, particularly, to the effective and rapid reduction of the carbonyl group to the corresponding hydroxy group, sometimes even very selectively in the presence of a carbon-to-carbon unsaturated group in the same compound, using as a hydrogenation catalyst Raney nickel having molybdenum adsorbed thereon.

Abstract: This invention provides an improved Raney nickel catalyst characterized by having a molybdenum compound adsorbed thereon. The novel catalyst contains about 0.5-15 parts by weight of molybdenum adsorbed per 100 parts by weight of Raney nickel solids. Optionally, one or more additional metals may be included in the catalyst. The catalyst is particularly effective in the manufacture of high quality butanediol by hydrogenation of butynediol, and for selective hydrogenation of carbonyl groups, sometimes even in the presence of carbon-carbon unsaturation, e.g. for the conversion of furfural to furfuryl alcohol.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided herein an improved low pressure, stirred, catalytic process by which butynediol can be produced continuously at a high rate of production, under safe conditions, and without simultaneously forming an excessive amount of undesirable by-products. The process of this invention can be carried out by heating acetylene and formaldehyde, at relatively low temperatures as compared to other processes using supported catalysts, in the presence of a stirred aqueous slurry of a finely-divided complex cuprous acetylide catalyst prepared from a precursor containing greater than 20% and less than 35% by weight of copper, and 0-3%, preferably 2-3%, by weight of bismuth, as the oxides, on a magnesium silicate carrier.

Abstract: 2-Chloro-2,3,3-tribromo-1,4-butanediol and processes for producing same by reacting dibromobutenediol in a liquid medium with bromine and chlorine.

Abstract: Hydrogenation catalyst and a process for producing gamma-butyrolactone by hydrogenating a feed compound -- selected from the group consisting of maleic acid, succinic acid, maleic anhydride, succinic anhydride, and mixtures of any of the foregoing -- in the vapor phase, in the presence of said catalyst, which is a highly selective elemental Cu-Pd or Cu-Pt catalyst, in order to produce high yields of gamma-butyrolactone and minimize the formation of by-products.