Patents by Inventor Louis Schmerling

Louis Schmerling has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Transesterification of carboxylic acids
    Patent number: 4112235
    Abstract: Carboxylic acids may be esterified by reaction with esters in the presence of a catalytic amount of a tin halide catalyst, the reaction being effected at temperatures ranging from about 0.degree. to about 150.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1978
    Assignee: UOP Inc.
    Inventor: Louis Schmerling
  • Carbonylation of alcohols
    Patent number: 4100359
    Abstract: The carbonylation of alcohols in which an alcohol is treated with carbon monoxide may be improved by the use of a heterogeneous catalyst (namely, a chlorohodium phthalocyanine catalyst) promoted by a sulfonic acid or sulfonate group (either attached to the phthalocyanine compound or to an added organic compound) and an alkyl iodide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1978
    Assignee: UOP Inc.
    Inventors: Louis Schmerling, Edwin H. Homeier
  • Transesterification of olefins
    Patent number: 4088820
    Abstract: Olefins may be esterified by reaction with esters of saturated alcohols containing at least two carbon atoms in the presence of a catalytic amount of a tin halide catalyst, the reaction being effected at temperatures ranging from about 0.degree. to about 150.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1978
    Assignee: UOP Inc.
    Inventor: Louis Schmerling
  • Removal of hydroxyl-, carboxy-, or amino substituents from aromatic compounds using a group VI B catalyst
    Patent number: 4062904
    Abstract: Substituent groups which are positioned on the nuclei of aromatic compounds may be removed therefrom by treating the substituted compound with hydrogen at an elevated temperature in the presence of hydrogenation catalysts and particularly transition metal oxides and sulfides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1977
    Assignee: UOP Inc.
    Inventor: Louis Schmerling
  • Alkylation of alkyl, cycloalkyl and aralkyl halides
    Patent number: 4046819
    Abstract: Alkyl, cycloalkyl or aralkyl halides may be alkylated by treatment with an olefin in the presence of a catalyst comprising a free-radical generating compound such as an organic peroxide and also in the presence of a promoter comprising hydrogen chloride, said alkylation reaction being effected at temperatures at least as high as the decomposition temperature of the free-radical generating compound, to prepare alkylated halide-containing compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: UOP Inc.
    Inventor: Louis Schmerling
  • Production of carboxylic acids from unsaturated hydrocarbons in the presence of HF and A cuprous compound
    Patent number: 4039564
    Abstract: The desired yields of carboxylic acids which are obtained by reacting an unsaturated hydrocarbon with water and carbon monoxide in the presence of a catalyst comprising hydrogen fluoride is improved by utilizing the presence of a promoter comprising a cuprous-containing compound in the reaction mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1977
    Assignee: UOP Inc.
    Inventors: Louis Schmerling, Joseph Levy
  • Production of monochloro- and aryl substituted saturated compounds
    Patent number: 4039793
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for the production of monochloro- and aryl-substituted saturated compounds which comprises condensing an alkyl aromatic hydrocarbon containing from 1 to 10 carbon atoms in the alkyl substituent with a monochloromonoolefin possessing up to 14 carbon atoms and having the chlorine attached to one of the doubly-bonded carbon atoms in the presence of a free radical-generating catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1977
    Assignee: UOP Inc.
    Inventors: Herman S. Bloch, Louis Schmerling
  • Production of chloro-substituted saturated compounds
    Patent number: 4036896
    Abstract: Chloro-substituted saturated compounds are prepared by condensing a saturated hydrocarbon containing at least 3 carbon atoms and a hydrogen atom attached to a secondary or tertiary carbon atom or to a carbon atom which is attached to an aromatic ring with a chloromonoolefin in which the chlorine is attached to a carbon atom other than a doubly-bonded carbon atom in the presence of a free-radical generating catalyst, preferably in the presence of a promoter comprising a hydrogen chloride compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1977
    Assignee: Universal Oil Products Company
    Inventor: Louis Schmerling
  • Production of monochloro-substituted saturated compounds
    Patent number: 4018836
    Abstract: Monochloro-substituted saturated compounds may be prepared by condensing a saturated compound such as cycloalkyl hydrocarbon with a chloromonoolefin possessing not more than 4 carbon atoms and having the chlorine atom attached to one of the doubly-bonded carbon atoms in the presence of a free radical-generating catalyst and a promoter comprising a hydrogen chloride compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1977
    Assignee: UOP Inc.
    Inventors: Herman S. Bloch, Louis Schmerling
  • Conversion of olefins to esters
    Patent number: 4009203
    Abstract: Olefins, and particularly olefinic hydrocarbons, may be converted to esters by treating the olefin with a carboxylic acid in the presence of a catalyst comprising the product resulting from the reaction of a tin halide with a carboxylic acid, the conversion taking place at temperatures ranging from ambient to about 150.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1977
    Assignee: Universal Oil Products Company
    Inventor: Louis Schmerling
  • Preparation of haloalkyl esters
    Patent number: 4005125
    Abstract: Haloalkyl esters are prepared by reacting a saturated cyclic ether with a carboxylic acid or anhydride thereof and a hydrogen halide or hydrohalic acid in the presence of a Friedel-Crafts catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1977
    Assignee: Universal Oil Products Company
    Inventor: Louis Schmerling
  • Novel flame retardant compositions of matter
    Patent number: 4005156
    Abstract: Novel flame retardant compositions of matter are exemplified by compositions of matter comprising a polymer and a poly(polyhalonorbornenylalkyl)benzene. These compositions of matter are exemplified by polyethylene and 1,4-bis(1,3,4,5,6,7,7-heptachloro-5-norbornen-2-ylmethyl)benzene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1977
    Assignee: Universal Oil Products Company
    Inventor: Louis Schmerling
  • Preparation of haloalkyl esters
    Patent number: 4005126
    Abstract: Haloalkyl esters are prepared by converting a saturated cyclic ether to the desired product by reaction of said ether with a carboxylic acid and a hydrogen halide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1977
    Assignee: Universal Oil Products Company
    Inventor: Louis Schmerling
  • Cycloalkenynes and a method for the preparation thereof
    Patent number: 4005152
    Abstract: Cycloalkenic compounds containing a side-chain which possesses a halogenated acetylenic linkage may be prepared by dehydrochlorinating a cycloalkenic compound containing a chloro-substituted unsaturated substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 25, 1977
    Assignee: Universal Oil Products Company
    Inventor: Louis Schmerling
  • Production of monochloro-substituted saturated compounds
    Patent number: 3998896
    Abstract: Monochloro-substituted saturated compounds are prepared by condensing an aliphatic saturated hydrocarbon containing a secondary of tertiary carbon atom with a monochloromonoolefin possessing up to 14 carbon atoms and having the chlorine atom attached to one of the doubly-bonded carbon atoms in the presence of a free radical-generating catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1976
    Assignee: UOP Inc.
    Inventors: Herman S. Bloch, Louis Schmerling
  • Preparation of polychloroalkenyl aromatic compounds
    Patent number: 3998895
    Abstract: Polychloroalkenyl aromatic compounds as exemplified by (1,3-dichloroallyl)benzene are prepared by the condensation of chloroalkyl aromatic compounds such as benzyl chloride with polychloroalkene compounds characterized by the presence of at least one chlorine atom on each of the doubly-bonded carbon atoms in the presence of a free radical-generating compound and a hydrogen chloride compound to produce the desired product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1976
    Assignee: UOP Inc.
    Inventor: Louis Schmerling
  • Preparation of ketones
    Patent number: 3992451
    Abstract: Saturated ketones are prepared by reacting a saturated or alkylaramatic hydrocarbon with an olefinic hydrocarbon in the presence of carbon monoxide, a hydrogen chloride compound and a catalyst consisting essentially of an organic peroxide at a temperature at least as high as the decomposition temperature of said peroxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1974
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1976
    Assignee: Universal Oil Products Company
    Inventor: Louis Schmerling
  • Production of substituted aromatic compounds
    Patent number: 3959226
    Abstract: A process is disclosed for the production of substituted aromatic compounds which comprises the reaction of an aromatic hydrocarbon with a compound containing an aldehyde functional group and a saturated hydrocarbon containing a tertiary carbon atom, or which is isomerized to form a saturated hydrocarbon containing a tertiary carbon atom during the reaction, in the presence of a Friedel-Crafts catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1976
    Assignee: Universal Oil Products Company
    Inventor: Louis Schmerling