Abstract: Finely divided, high surface area, small crystallite (0.1 micron or less) di- and poly-transition metal chalcogenides are prepared by mixing in the absence of an aqueous solvent a transition metal salt with a source of chalcogen yielding a precipitate. The salt and the chalcogen source can be mixed either neat or in the presence of a nonaqueous solvent. The precipitate which results before removal of the anion salt is a finely divided product.

Abstract: Finely divided, small particle (0.1 micron or less) small crystallite (about 50 A.times.100 A or less) chalcogenides of manganese, rhenium and technetium are described. These compositions are prepared by mixing the absence of an aqueous solvent, a manganese, rhenium or technetium salt with a source of chalcogenide yielding a precipitate. The manganese, rhenium or technetium salt and the source of chalcogen can be mixed either neat or in the presence of a nonaqueous aprotic solvent. The precipitate which results before removal of the anion salt is a finely divided product. In the case of rhenium dichalcogenide the product possesses a layered structure. The anion salt may be removed by any technique common to the art, pumping under vacuum being one such technique, washing with a suitable solvent being another.A method is described for the preparation of di- and poly-chalcogenides of the formula MX.sub.

Abstract: A process for producing layered organometallic polymers having organo groups covalently bonded to pentavalent metal atoms. The pentavalent metal atoms are, in turn, covalently bonded through an oxygen linkage to tetravalent metal atoms. The layered organometallic compounds are produced by reacting a silyl diester of an organo-substituted pentavalent metal acid with at least one tetravalent metal ion.

Abstract: Dichalcogenides of Group IVb, Vb, molybdenum and tungsten of two new forms have been discovered. The two new forms are the amorphous and layered-sheet configurations. In particular, the dichalcogenides of Group IVb, Ib, molybdenum and tungsten, i.e. Z(MX.sub.2).sub.n wherein M is the metal and X is the chalcogen, n is at least about 20,000 and Z is the number of such (MX.sub.2).sub.n sheets ranging from 1-10, can be described as possessing a "rag-like" structure representing a system consisting of single or several stacked but randomly folded and disordered layers or sheets having dimensions (as determined by TEM) corresponding to about 6.2 to 62 A in thickness, about 500 A minimum length by about 500 A minimum width. Broadly the rag-like (MX.sub.2).sub.n can be likened to a stack of polymer sheets wherein each sheet is one atom thick. These sheets of (MX.sub.2).sub.n are prepared by the controlled heating (in a flowing stream of H.sub.2 /H.sub.2 S) of amorphous MX.sub.

Abstract: Inorganic compounds which contain pendant organic functional groups are prepared by the reaction of an acid of the formula [(HO).sub.2 OZO.sub.x ].sub.k R, in which Z is a pentavalent metal, X is 0 or 1, k is 1 or 2, and R is an acyclic organo group, with a tetravalent metal ion. The compounds are insoluble in the reaction medium, exist in a layered crystalline to amorphous form, and have the formula M(O.sub.3 ZO.sub.x R).sub.n, in which M is the tetravalent metal and n is 1 or 2. One use for the compounds is as selective sorbents.

Abstract: Cyano-organophosphorus compounds react by a metathesis reaction in a liquid medium with tetravalent metal ions yielding layered crystalline to amorphous inorganic polymers having the empirical formula M(O.sub.3 PRCN).sub.2 or M(O.sub.3 PORCN).sub.2 where M is a tetravalent metal and R is a an organic group covalently bonded to phosphorus and the terminal cyano group. One use for the compounds is as ion complexers.

Abstract: Sulfur-containing organophosphorus acid compounds react by a metathesis reaction in a liquid medium with tetravalent metal ions yielding layered crystalline to amorphous inorganic polymers having the empirical formula M(O.sub.3 PRSH).sub.2, or M(O.sub.3 PRSR').sub.2 where M is a tetravalent metal and R and R' are organic groups covalently bonded to phosphorus and the sulfur-containing group. One use for the compounds is as ion complexers.

Abstract: Solid inorganic polymers which are derivatives of acyclic organo group-containing phosphonic or phosphoric acids are characterized by the structural linkage of three oxygens bonded to phosphorus to one or more tetravalent metals selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, cerium, hafnium, lead, thorium and uranium. The molar ratio of phosphorus to tetravalent metal is about 2 to 1. One use for the polymers is as stationary phases or supports in chromatography.

Abstract: Phenylphosphonic acid reacts by a metathesis reaction in a liquid medium with tetravalent zirconium ions, yielding layered crystalline to amorphous inorganic polymers having the empirical formula Zr(O.sub.3 PC.sub.6 H.sub.5).sub.2. One use for the compound is as a sorbent for small quantities of organic materials in aqueous solutions.

Abstract: Organophosphorus acid compounds react by a metathesis reaction in a liquid media with tetravalent metal ions to yield layered crystalline to amorphous inorganic polymers having the empirical formula M(O.sub.3 PR).sub.2 where M is the tetravalent metal and R is an organic group convalently bonded to phosphorous. Typically, R can be bonded to phosphorus through carbon to form a phosphonate, or through oxygen to form a phosphate.

Abstract: Novel compositions of matter are disclosed having the formula UO.sub.2 AA'L.sub.n, wherein n is 0 or 1, and in which A and A' are anions whose conjugate acids have boiling points less than about 200.degree. C. and pK.sub.a values of 4.8 or less, L is a neutral ligand having a boiling point less than about 190.degree. C. and having an equilibrium constant for the exchange reaction with tetrahydrofuran of between about 10.sup.-3 and 10.sup.3, and the combination of A, A' and L satisfy five or six coordination sites of the central uranium atom.

Abstract: Carboxy phosphorus acid compounds react by a metathesis reaction in a liquid media with tetravalent metal ions to yield layered crystalline inorganic polymers having the empirical formula M(O.sub.3 PR.sub.n COOH).sub.2 where M is a tetravalent metal and R is an organic group covalently bonded to phosphorous and the terminal carboxy group and n is 0 or 1.

Abstract: Sulfo-organophosphonic acid compounds react by a metathesis reaction in a liquid medium with tetravalent metal ions, yielding layered crystalline to amorphous inorganic polymers having the empirical formula M(O.sub.3 PRSO.sub.3 H).sub.2 where M is a tetravalent metal and R is an organic group covalently bonded to phosphorus and the terminal sulfonic acid group. One use for the compounds is as ion exchangers.

Abstract: Organophosphorus acid compounds react by a metathesis reaction in a liquid media with tetravalent metal ions to yield layered crystalline to amorphous inorganic polymers having the empirical formula M(O.sub.3 PR).sub.2 where M is the tetravalent metal and R is an organic group covalently bonded to phosphorus.

Abstract: A complex is described of the formula:TX.sub.2 (RNC).sub.ywherein TX.sub.2 is the inorganic host in which T is selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, molybdenum and tungsten and mixtures thereof, and X is a chalcogenide selected from the group consisting of sulfur, selenium and tellurium, and RNC is the organic guest wherein R is an alkyl or aryl alkyl radical of from 1 to 18 carbon atoms and y is a number ranging from about 0.10 to about 2.0.These new complexes are afforded by the intercalation of organic isonitriles within the layered structure of Group IVb, Vb, molybdenum and tungsten transition metal dichalcogenides.

Abstract: A new group of materials is afforded by the intercalation of metallocenes into the layered structure of metal dichalcogenides, said new material being represented by the general formula:TZ.sub.2 [M(C.sub.5 H.sub.m-q X.sub.q).sub.2 ].sub.nwhere T is a member of Group IVb, Vb, tin, or mixtures thereof, or is a mixture of Group Vb and VIb wherein Vb is at least 50% of the mixture, Z is sulfur, selenium, or mixtures thereof, M is chromium, cobalt, iridium, rhodium or mixtures thereof, n is 0.10 to 0.4, m is 5, q is 0 to 5 and X is an organic radical which is the same or different and is selected from the group consisting of C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 linear and branched hydrocarbyls, C.sub.3 -C.sub.12 cyclic alkyls, C.sub.2 -C.sub.12 alkenyls, C.sub.2 -C.sub.12 alkynyls, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkoxy, C.sub.6 -C.sub.18 aryloxy, C.sub.6 -C.sub.18 aryls.

Abstract: Novel compositions of matter herein are claimed and may be represented by the general formula CuA.L, where CuA is a Cu(I) salt of medium to strong Bronsted acids and L is a ligand chosen from a variety of structural classes including phosphines, phosphites, phosphine sulfides, phosphine oxides, thiophosphates, thioureas or arsines. These compositions are liquid at ambient conditions and are useful for complexing a variety of complexible organic compounds such as olefins, diolefins, allenes, acetylenes, aromatics, carbon monoxide and the like. In a preferred embodiment, the use of trialkyl phosphines is found to improve the stability of CuAlCl.sub.4.aromatic systems when said systems are used in olefin complexing processes.

Abstract: Metal chalcogenides having the general formula MZ.sub.y wherein Z is S, Se and Te; M is an element from Group IVB, VB, Mo, W, Tc, Pt, Re, Ge, Sn and Pb and y is 1.0 to 4.0 are lithiated by lithium compounds selected from LiR.sub.1, LiC(R.sub.1).sub.3, LiN(R.sub.1).sub.2, LiBH(R.sub.1).sub.3, LiR.sub.1.R.sub.2 and LiAlH.sub.4.R.sub.2 wherein R.sub.1 is a hydrocarbon radical of 1 to 8 carbon atoms and R.sub.2 is a chelating polyamine.Novel intercalated compounds of the formula Li.sub.x MZ.sub.y are formed wherein M is a Group VB element, Hf, Ti and Zr; Z is S and Se, provided that Z is Se when M is vanadium; y is 1.67 to 2.02 and x is between 0.8 and 1.2.