Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the preparation of a polymer-metal cluster composite material having usefulness as a non-linear optical material or high-modulus material. The method comprises bringing a polymeric resin into contact with vapor of a heavy metal compound such as an acetylacetonato complex compound of palladium, platinum or copper under a non-oxidizing atmosphere at a temperature higher than the glass transition temperature of the polymeric resin so that the metal compound vapor is dissolved into the polymeric resin in a glassy state and is in situ reduced into the form of an elementary metal forming clusters of the metal particles.

Abstract: Proposed is a method for the preparation of an ionic polyhalogeno metal complex compound consisting of a tetraalkylammonium cation and a polyhalogeno metal anion, of which the metal is selected from those having an atomic valency of 1 and a coordination number of 2, those having an atomic valency of 3 and a coordination number of 4 and those having an atomic valency of 2 and a coordination number of 4. The method comprises the steps of: dissolving a tetraalkylammonium halide and elementary halogen in a stoichiometric proportion corresponding to the chemical composition of the desired complex compound in an organic solvent to form a solution; dissolving, in the solution, the metal in an amount larger than the stoichiometric amount so as to be dissolved in the solution forming the complex compound in the reaction mixture; removing the undissolved metal from the reaction mixture to give a solution of the complex compound; and isolating the complex compound from the solution.

Abstract: A method of solubilizing iodine in an aqueous medium is disclosed, which includes mixing the aqueous medium with iodine together with a polystyrene derivative having the recurring units of the formula ##STR1## wherein R represents an alkylene group having 1-4 carbon atoms and n is an integer of 2-20. An antiseptic composition includes an aqueous medium, the above polystryene derivative, and iodine dissolved in the aqueous medium.

Abstract: An efficient method is proposed for the recovery of gold value from a waste material containing scrap gold by utilizing a principle that metallic gold can be dissolved at elevated temperatures and specifically precipitated at low temperatures with good reversibility in and out of a specific unique liquid medium which is an organic solvent, e.g., acetonitrile, containing an ionic compound of a first halogen, e.g., quaternary ammonium halides, and an elementary form of a second halogen each in a specified concentration, of which at least either one of the first and second halogens is iodine. Namely, a gold-containing waste material is contacted at a high temperature with the liquid medium to have the gold value dissolved therein and the gold-containing solution is then cooled to a low temperature so that the gold value can be recovered in the form of precipitates in a high purity.

Abstract: A quaternary ammonium trihalide, a novel compound, represented by the formula:[A--R'].sup.+ .multidot.X.sub.3.sup.-(wherein A stands for a trialkyl-amino radical or a pyridyl radical, R' for an alkyl radical of 6 to 22 carbon atoms, and X for a halogen atom) and a method for the dissolution of a metal with a liquid consisting essentially of an organic solvent and the quaternary ammonium trihalide.

Abstract: From an ore containing gold and silver, the gold and silver are extracted by a method which comprises pulverizing the ore and bringing the pulverized ore into contact with an elemental halogen, a halogenated salt, and an organic solvent thereby converting the gold and silver into polyhalogeno anionic complexes and consequently dissolving them in the organic solvent.

Abstract: A metal is dissolved by a method which comprises establishing contact of the metal with a quaternary ammonium compound and a halogenated hydrocarbon or with a quaternary ammonium compound, a halogenated hydrocarbon, and a polar solvent.

Abstract: A metal is dissolved by being brought into contact with at least one halogenated hydrocarbon in the presence of a cationic surfactant.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for producing electroconductive fibrous shaped-articles comprising the steps of:soaking water-absorptive fibrous shaped-articles in a palladium hydrosol containing a cationic surfactant, an anionic surfactant, a non-ionic surfactant or a mixture thereof, and after (i) drying the thus treated shaped-articles, (ii) washing the thus treated shaped-articles with water or (iii) washing the thus treated shaped-articles and then drying, subjecting the thus obtained, shaped-articles on which colloidal palladium is adsorbed to chemical plating, thereby obtaining the electroconductive fibrous shaped-articles of which fibers thereof are subjected to metallizing plating.

Abstract: Nickel boride colloid useful as a catalyst for the hydrogenation of carbonyl compound is obtained by causing a nickel salt to react upon an alkali metal borohydride in an alcohol substantially free from dissolved oxygen under a non-oxidative atmosphere in the presence of an alcohol-soluble polymer.

Abstract: In an organic compound having a methlene group attached to a tertiary carbon atom thereof, preferential hydrogenation of the methylene group of the compound is effected by bringing hydrogen into contact with the compound in the presence of a nickel boride colloid.

Abstract: Diisopropylbenzene monohydroperoxide which is usable for the oxidation of diisopropylbenzene without prevention of the oxidation, is recovered from an oxidation product solution of diisopropylbenzene by steam-distilling the oxidation product solution at pH 6 to 9 and at a solution temperature of 80.degree. to 130.degree. C under a reduced pressure.

Abstract: Resorcinol and hydroquinone are recovered in mixture at a high purity from a solution containing resorcinol and hydroquinone, especially, a solution resulting from cleavage of oxidation products of isopropylbenzene and successive distillation of the cleavage product thereby to remove lower and higher boiling components therefrom, by adding 0.

Abstract: Meta-and/or paradiisopropylbenzene dihydroperoxides are continuously produced by oxidizing meta-and/or paradiisopropylbenzenes in liquid phase through contact with oxygen or a gas containing oxygen, while keeping the concentration of meta-and/or paradiisopropylbenzene monohydroperoxides of the oxidation product solution in a range of 20 to 40% by weight.

Abstract: Impurities, that is, by-products, in an oxidation product solution obtained by oxidation of diisopropylbenzene by molecular oxygen or in the oxidation product solution freed from diisopropylbenzene dihydroperoxide, are removed by extracting the by-products such as carbinols, ketones and styrenes from the solution with a mixture of an aqueous alkaline solution and at least one of alcohols having 1 to 3 carbon atoms such as methanol, ethanol, and isopropanol, as an extracting reagent at a temperature of 20.degree. to 80.degree.C.

Abstract: In a process for the production of hydroperoxides by the oxidation of an aromatic hydrocarbon having at least one tertiary carbon atom with oxygen or an oxygen containing gas in the presence of an aqueous alkaline solution, an improvement is made in that the oxidation is effected in an emulsion phase which is caused by powerfully mixing all or a part of the materials to be brought into the oxidation reaction only by the aid of the hydroperoxides formed in the reaction, whereby enhancing the reaction rate with safety.

Abstract: Dihydroperoxides of dialkylaromatic hydrocarbons are separated in high yield from an aqueous alkaline solutions of hydroperoxides containing the dihydroperoxides by adding 0.01 to 1 % by weight of a compound having a nitrogen base, such as ammonia and aromatic amines, to the solution, based on the weight of the solution, thereby stabilizing the dihydroperoxides in the solution, and separating the dihydroperoxides therefrom by extraction.