Abstract: Mono-, di- and tri-ketones of polyoxyalkylene compounds prepared by a method whereby the terminal hydroxyl groups of polyoxyalkylene compounds are oxidized to ketone groups with an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal hypochlorite oxidant in the presence of acetic acid are disclosed. These compounds are useful for preparing surface active agents or they may be reacted with amines to provide fuel additives.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of isobutylene oxide and isobutyric acid from isobutylene and isobutyraldehyde, respectively, by a co-oxidation process conducted in the presence of oxygen and a cobalt salt catalyst at a temperature of about 20.degree. to about 180.degree. C. is disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method wherein t-butanol is reacted with methanol in one step to provide methyl t-butyl ether at a temperature of about 20.degree. C. to 250.degree. C. and a pressure of about atmospheric to about 1000 psig employing a catalyst consisting of a Group IV oxide on which there has been deposited a sulfur-containing compound from the group consisting of ammonium sulfate or sulfuric acid.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for preparing synthetic lubricant base stocks. Synthetic lubricant base stocks may be prepared in good yield by oligomerizing linear olefins using certain acidic calcium montmorillonite clay catalysts. When the oligomers are hydrogenated, they provide a synthetic lubricant base stock having excellent properties.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for preparing synthetic lubricant base stocks having improved properties. Synthetic lubricant base stocks may be prepared in good yield by oligomerizing linear olefins using certain acidic calcium montmorillonite clay catalysts. When a mixture of 1,3-di-isopropenyl benzene and long-chain alpha-olefin is used, in which up to about 20 wt. % of the mixture comprises 1,3-di-isopropenyl benzene, and the co-oligomers prepared therefrom are hydrogenated, a synthetic lubricant base stock having a lower pour point and a higher viscosity is prepared.

Abstract: A tertiary butyl hydroperoxide feedstock, such as one prepared from the reaction product formed by the reaction of isobutane with molecular oxygen and which feedstock comprises tertiary butyl hydroperoxide dissolved in tertiary butyl alcohol, is charged to a catalytic decomposition zone where the tertiary butyl hydroperoxide is catalytically decomposed in the presence of a soluble catalyst system to provide a decomposition reaction product characterized by a high conversion rate and a high selectivity of tertiary butyl hydroperoxide to tertiary butyl alcohol, the catalyst system being composed of a soluble iron compound and a soluble ruthenium compound.

Abstract: A method for purifying a cumene recycle stream by removing 2-phenyl-2-propanol and cumene hydroperoxide before the cumene is distilled and recycled to the peroxidation reactor which comprises reacting the recycle cumene in the presence of an acid treated montmorillonite clay of the formula:M.sub.x/n.sup.n+.sub..y H.sub.2 O(Al.sub.4-x Mg.sub.x) (Si.sub.8)O.sub.20 (OH).sub.4or in the presence of a catalyst comprising phosphoric acid on silica.

Abstract: A battery package for an integrated circuit having a container member with a floor and side walls; a pair of grooves through the inside surface of the side walls. A battery is disposed within the container, connected to two generally planar, electrically conductive contacts each having generally perpendicular, integral, pin portion formed on one end thereof. Each contact is attached to one of the battery terminals such that its pin is positioned within one of the grooves and extends above said upper container surface. The second contact is attached such that the portion of said second contact next adjacent said pin is positioned on a platform within the groove. A sealing composition envelops the battery, contacts, and a portion of the pins. The package is electrically attached to a dual-in-line integrated circuit member and the junction is sealed.

Abstract: Tertiary butyl alcohol is prepared by the catalytic decomposition of tertiary butyl hydroperoxide in solution in a monocyclic aromatic solvent in the presence of a metal phthalocycnaine catalyst.

Abstract: Tertiary butyl hydroperoxide and tertiary butyl alcohol are recovered from the reaction product formed by reacting excess propylene with tertiary butyl hydroperoxide in solution in tertiary butyl alcohol in the presence of a soluble molybdenum catalyst, by fractionating the reaction produce to provide distillate propylene, propylene oxide, and tertiary butyl alcohol fractions and a heavy distillation fraction comprising tertiary butyl hydroperoxide, tertiary butyl alcohol and impurities, including dissolved molybdenum catalyst, the tertiary butyl hydroperoxide and tertiary butyl alcohol being recovered from the heavy distillation fraction by vacuum evaporation under evaporation conditions including a temperature of about 25.degree. to about 160.degree. C. and a pressure of about 2 to about 200 mm Hg. in order to provide a lighter condensate fraction comprising about 60 to about 95 wt. % of the heavy distillation fraction and containing from about 70 to about 95 wt.

Abstract: Diketones useful as intermediates for reaction with carboxylic acids to provide surfactants and for reaction with amine adducts to provide fuel additives are prepared from polyoxyalkylene glycols having a molecular weight of about 200 to about 2,000 and having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or methyl and wherein n is a positive number having a value of 1 to about 50,The polyoxyalkylene polyol is oxidized in the presence of a halogenated alkane solvent and a ruthenium catalyst with an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal hypochlorite at a temperature of about 10.degree. to about 50.degree. C. and a pressure of about 0 to 1,000 psig. over a period of about 10 to about 20 hours to provide the corresponding diketone having the formula: ##STR2## wherein R and n have the meaning given above.

Abstract: Carboxylic acid derivatives and methyl ketone derivatives of polyoxypropylene glycols are prepared by the selective nitric acid oxidation of a polyoxypropylene glycol in the presence of an alkali metal nitrite. If the alkali metal nitrite is added to an aqueous solution of nitric acid and the polyoxypropylene glycol is thereafter added, carboxylic acid derivatives of the polyoxypropylene glycol are provided. If a mixture of an alkali metal nitrite and a polyoxypropylene glycol is added to an aqueous solution of nitric acid, a reaction product containing a predominant amount of methyl ketone derivatives of the polyoxypropylene glycol is provided.

Abstract: A process for the production of detergent range alcohols and ketones by reacting an alkane with a hydroperoxide in the presence of a transition metal porphyrin catalyst is described. Preferred hydroperoxides include cumene hydroperoxide and tertiary butyl hydroperoxide. The transition metal porphyrin catalyst may be transition metal phthalocyanines, transition metalloporphines and the like. The transition metal itself may be iron, manganese, cobalt and mixtures thereof. Suitable ligands include, but are not limited to imidazoles and lithium borate. Other useful additives include alkali metal perchlorates, such as sodium perchlorate, iodosylbenzene and alkali metal superoxides, such as potassium superoxide, and phase transfer catalysts such as tetrabutyl ammonium bromide.

Abstract: A process for the production of detergent range alcohols and ketones by reacting an alkane with a hydroperoxide in the presence of a transition metal acetylacetonate catalyst is described. Preferred hydroperoxides include cumene hydroperoxide and tertiary butyl hydroperoxide. The transition metal itself may be iron, ruthenium, chromium and mixtures thereof. If iron acetylacetonate is used as a catalyst, copper (II) acetate may be usefully employed as a co-catalyst.

Abstract: A heavy distillation fraction comprising tertiary butyl hydroperoxide, tertiary butyl alcohol, impurities and dissolved molybdenum catalyst resulting from the removel of propylene, propylene oxide and tertiary butyl alcohol from an epoxidation reaction product is mixed with about 5 to about 10 wt. %, based on the weight of the heavy liquid distilation fraction, of a lower aliphatic alcohol containing from 1 to 3 carbon atoms to provide a charge mixture, and the charge mixture is:charged to a falling film evaporator and separator therein, under evaporator operating conditions including a temperature within the range of about 20.degree. to about 150.degree. C. and a pressure of about 1 to about 200 mm Hg., into an overhead vaporized fraction comprising substantially all of the aliphatic alcohol and from about 80 to about 95 wt. % of the heavy distillation fraction charged to the falling film evaporator.

Abstract: A process for the production of detergent range alcohols and ketones by reacting an alkane with a hydroperoxide in the presence of dicyano bis-(1,10-phenanthrolene)iron(II) is described. Preferred hydroperoxides include cumene hydroperoxide and tertiary butyl hydroperoxide.

Abstract: Polyoxypropylene diketones are prepared by initially adding predetermined amounts of glacial acetic acid, a polyoxypropylene glycol and, optionally, water, to a reaction zone and thereafter adding an aqueous solution of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal hypochlorite oxidant to the reaction zone with agitation under reaction conditions including a temperature of about 10.degree. to about 50.degree. C., a pressure of about 0 to 1,000 psig. and a total reaction time of about 0.5 to 20 hours, whereby said polyoxypropylene glycol will be substantially selectively converted to the said corresponding diketone, and recovering said diketone.

Abstract: A process for substantially completely removing a minor amount of molybdenum dissolved in a substantially anhydrous organic solution, such as a heavy distillation fraction resulting from the removal of unreacted propylene, propylene oxide and tertiary butyl alcohol from an epoxidation reaction mixture:wherein from about 1 to about 10 wt. % of an aqueous solution of sodium meta borate containing from about 1 to about 10 wt. % of dissolved sodium meta borate is added to an organic solution containing dissolved molybdenum catalyst in an amount sufficient to provide a molar excess of sodium meta borate, based on the gram atoms of dissolved molybdenum in said organic solution, to provide a mixture,wherein the mixture is maintained at a temperature ranging from about ambient temperature up to about 100.degree. C. at a pressure of about 0 to about 1,000 psig. for about 0.

Abstract: Tertiary butyl alcohol is prepared by the catalytic decomposition of tertiary butyl hydroperoxide, preferably in solution in tertiary butyl alcohol, in the presence of a borate-promoted metal phthalocyanine catalyst such as a Group IB, VIIB or VIIIB metal phthalocyanine and a Group IA, IIA or IIB metal borate, for example, chloroferric phthalocyanine and lithium borate, barium borate, zinc borate or sodium metaborate.

Abstract: A tertiary butyl hydroperoxide feedstock, such as one prepared by the reaction of isobutane with molecular oxygen comprising tertiary butyl hydroperoxide dissolved in tertiary butyl alcohol, is charged to a catalytic decomposition zone where the tertiary butyl hydroperoxide is catalytically decomposed in the presence of a soluble ruthenium catalyst compound promoted with a bidentate ligand to provide a decomposition reaction product characterized by a high conversion rate and a high selectivity of tertiary butyl hydroperoxide to tertiary butyl alcohol.