The Five-membered Hetero Ring, Except For The =x To The Ring, Is Unsubstituted Or Hydrocarbyl Substituted Only Patents (Class 549/230)
  • Patent number: 11389776
    Abstract: The invention provides a reaction system for the production of ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol. The system having a guard bed system upstream of a catalytic EO reactor. The guard bed system having a feed line supplying a gaseous feed to be treated and an effluent line configured to remove the treated gaseous feed. The guard bed system has two or more guard bed vessels arranged in series in sequential order, each having an inlet, a bed of guard bed material and an outlet. The inlet of each guard bed vessel is attached by means of valves to both the feed line and the outlet of the guard bed vessel preceding it in sequential order. The outlet of each guard bed vessel is attached by means of valves to both the effluent line and to the inlet of the guard bed vessel following it in sequential order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHELL USA, INC.
    Inventors: Jesse Raymond Black, Gregory John Ward, Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus Bastings, David Allen Van Kleeck, Wayne Errol Evans
  • Patent number: 11377535
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for depolymerizing the polymer component of fiber reinforced polymers to facilitate the recovery of free fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Adam F. Gross, John J. Vajo, Ashley M. Nelson, April R. Rodriguez, Hardik Dalal, Panagiotis E. George
  • Patent number: 11363868
    Abstract: A method of treating hair to reduce frizz involving the following steps: (i) prewashing the hair with water, (ii) applying a frizz reducing product to the hair using at least one of a brush and a spray, (iii) drying the hair in air, (iv) rinsing the hair with water, (v) drying the hair, (vi) applying to the hair a flat iron, and (vii) rinsing the hair with water. The frizz reducing agent used to treat hair is glyoxylic acid. The specific temperature the flat iron is set will depend on the specific hair type and degree of frizz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Inventor: Thalita Leite
  • Patent number: 11130728
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a carbonate derivative in a safe and efficient manner. The method for producing a carbonate derivative according to the present invention is characterized in comprising irradiating light on a composition containing a C1-4 halogenated hydrocarbon having one or more kinds of halogen atoms selected from the group consisting of a chlorine atom, a bromine atom and an iodine atom, a nucleophilic functional group-containing compound and the specific base in the presence of oxygen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY, MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventor: Akihiko Tsuda
  • Patent number: 10941105
    Abstract: A method for co-production of high purity dimethyl carbonate and mono-ethylene glycol by applying a reactor, such as a membrane reactor and/or an adsorbent-catalytic reactor by capturing and reacting carbon dioxide with methanol and ethylene oxide. Carbon dioxide may be recovered from primary sources (utilities and industrial processes) by a membrane or solid adsorbent, and subsequently converted to an intermediate hydroxy-ethyl-methyl carbonate by reacting with ethylene oxide and methanol. For high-purity carbon dioxide (obtained by carbon capture technologies or from an ethanol fermentation process), the membrane reactor is replaced with a catalytic reactor for direct conversion of carbon dioxide to hydroxy-ethyl-methyl carbonate by reacting with ethylene oxide and methanol. The hydro-ethyl-methyl carbonate is further reacted with methanol for conversion to dimethyl carbonate. A combination of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysts is implemented for an effective conversion of carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: E3Tec Service, LLC
    Inventors: Chandrakant B. Panchal, Richard Doctor
  • Patent number: 10822324
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for selectively separating propylene carbonate by adding water to reaction products comprising a polyether carbonate polyol and propylene carbonate, which are generated from a polymerization reaction of propylene oxide and carbon dioxide under a double metal cyanide (DMC) catalyst, wherein an economical and effective separation of propylene carbonate can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: POSCO, RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Joon-Hyun Baik, Jae-Hee Ha
  • Patent number: 10717719
    Abstract: Processes for producing ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol, and associated reaction systems are similarly provided. Specifically, a process is provided that comprises supplying an overhead absorber stream withdrawn from an absorber to a vapor-liquid separator to yield an aqueous bottoms stream and a recycle gas stream; supplying an aqueous process stream comprising one or more impurities to a distillation apparatus to yield an overhead impurities stream and a purified aqueous process stream; supplying at least a portion of the purified aqueous process stream and an ethylene oxide product stream to the absorber; and contacting the ethylene oxide product stream with the purified aqueous process stream in the absorber in the presence of one or more carboxylation and hydrolysis catalysts to yield a fat absorbent stream comprising ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Jesse Raymond Black, Roel Guillaume Hubertus Leonardus Bastings, Alexandre Molina
  • Patent number: 10525409
    Abstract: Processes for reducing the amount of a gaseous iodide-containing impurity present in a recycle gas stream used in the production of ethylene oxide, in particular a vinyl iodide impurity, are provided. Processes for producing ethylene oxide, ethylene carbonate and/or ethylene glycol, and associated reaction systems are similarly provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Francis Lemanski, Wayne Errol Evans
  • Patent number: 10106520
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for continuously producing a cyclic carbonate which are easily scaled up without requiring a large-sized reactor or excessive ancillary facilities even in the case of producing a cyclic carbonate by using an immobilized catalyst as a catalyst on an industrial scale, are able to produce a cyclic carbonate without impairing the expected catalytic efficiency and catalyst lifetime, are economical, and exhibit excellent industrial productivity. The apparatus includes an adiabatic reactor to be filled with a heterogeneous catalyst for reacting an epoxide with carbon dioxide, a circulation path for returning at least a portion of a fluid mixture in a liquid form flowed out through a reactor outlet into the reactor, a carbon dioxide supply means for continuously supplying carbon dioxide in a liquid form or a supercritical state into the circulation path, and an epoxide supply means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MARUZEN PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kouzo Osaki, Takashi Naniki, Yasunori Hayashi, Takeshi Haruna
  • Patent number: 10093643
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for synthesizing cyclocarbonates by reacting an epoxy compound and carbon dioxide at atmospheric pressure and elevated temperature in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst system comprising an alkali metal halide and silica as well as the use of said catalyst system for the synthesis of cyclocarbonates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA and Henkel IP & Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Thérèse Hémery, Hans-Georg Kinzelmann, Rosa Maria Sebastián Pérez, Jordi Marquet Cortés, Yongxia Wang, Jorge Aguilera
  • Patent number: 9850223
    Abstract: Provided are a novel metal catalyst for preparing cyclic carbonate, and a method for preparing cyclic carbonate using the same, and more particularly, a method for selectively preparing cyclic carbonate in a high yield and at a higher conversion rate as compared to the existing catalysts, using the metal complex including a ligand represented by Chemical Formula 1 below and a trivalent metal in Group 8 or Group 13 as a catalyst and using various structures of epoxide compounds and carbon dioxide as raw materials. In addition, provided are the prepared cyclic carbonate, and an electrolyte including the same: in Chemical Formula 1, R1 is hydrogen, (C1-C20)alkyl or halogen; R2 is hydrogen, (C1-C20)alkyl, (C1-C20)alkoxy, halogen or nitro.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hyunwoo Kim, Yuseop Lee
  • Patent number: 9586927
    Abstract: Provided is a method for continuously producing a cyclic carbonate, by which generation of a glycol in a reaction for synthesizing a cyclic carbonate is suppressed, and a cyclic carbonate having a high purity can be efficiently obtained even by simple purification. A method for continuously producing a cyclic carbonate, including filling a catalyst in a fixed-bed tube reactor, and continuously feeding carbon dioxide and an epoxide to the fixed-bed tube reactor to thereby bringing the carbon dioxide and the epoxide into contact with the catalyst, while continuously withdrawing the reaction liquid in the fixed-bed tube reactor, wherein the method includes a pre-treatment step in which a pre-treatment liquid containing a cyclic carbonate is brought into contact with the catalyst before feeding the carbon dioxide and the epoxide to the fixed-bed tube reactor, and the generated glycol is removed out of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignees: MARUZEN PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD., National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Takashi Naniki, Yasunori Hayashi, Goro Sawada, Takuro Furukawa, Takeshi Haruna, Toshikazu Takahashi, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Shouji Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9586926
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for a method of making an alkylene carbonate, catalysts, methods of converting CO2 to an alkylene carbonate, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Valerio D'Elia, Jeremie D. A. Pelletier, Jean-Marie Basset
  • Patent number: 9399632
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a porous solid oxidic material from a hydrogel of the oxidic material and to the porous solid oxidic material as such.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Johann Martin Szeifert, Michael Kutschera
  • Patent number: 9273024
    Abstract: A dimeric aluminum(salen) catalyst of formula I: wherein: (a) at least one R group is selected from L-A, and/or (b) at least one of X group is a divalent C3-7 heterocyclene group, containing a ring atom which is a quaternary nitrogen atom paired with a counterion selected from Cl, Br and I; and/or (c) at least one X group is a C2-5 alkylene chain or a C1-3 bisoxyalkylene chain, substituted by a group -Q-L-A; and/or (ii) (a) one R group is L-A?, or (b) one X group is a divalent C3-7 heterocyclene group, containing a ring atom which is a quaternary nitrogen forming part of an ammonium linking group bound to a solid support and paired with a counterion selected from Cl, Br and I; or (c) one X group is a C2-5 alkylene chain or a C1-3 bisoxyalkylene chain, substituted by a group -Q-L-A?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: University of York
    Inventor: Michael North
  • Patent number: 9266854
    Abstract: This invention discloses one step transition metal free process for synthesis of cyclic carbonates from aldehydes and carbon dioxide. More particularly, the invention relates to single step procedure involving Corey-Chaykovsky reaction and in-situ C02 insertion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Council of Scientific & Industrial Research
    Inventors: Ravindra Dattatray Aher, Boopathi Senthil Kumar, Arumugam Sudalai
  • Patent number: 9144765
    Abstract: Reactor systems are provided that comprise a purification zone comprising an absorbent which comprises silver, an alkali or alkaline earth metal, and a support material having a surface area of more than 20 m2/g, and a reaction zone comprising a catalyst, which reaction zone is positioned downstream from the purification zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventor: Marek Matusz
  • Publication number: 20140370375
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electrolyte that improve the organic electrolyte storage battery of an electric vehicle in the initial storage capacity that affects the possible cruising range, which electrolyte comprises a compound having no rotational symmetry axis of the compounds represented by formula (1) below: wherein R1 to R5 are each independently hydrogen, an alkyl group, a halogenated alkyl group, or halogen, R6 is an alkylene group or a halogenated alkylene group and R7 is a phenyl group having no substituent or having a substituent (a straight-chain or branched alkyl group having one to four carbon atoms, halogen-containing straight-chain or branched alkyl group having one to four carbon atoms, or halogen) bonded thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: JX NIPPON OIL & ENERGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Nishizawa, Atsuo Omaru
  • Publication number: 20140371470
    Abstract: Methods are provided for producing epoxidation catalysts. The present methods are able to produce catalysts having the desired loading levels of catalytic species at a lower vacuum level (having a higher minimum residual pressure) than previously appreciated by the art, thereby providing equipment cost and time savings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: DOW TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS LLC
    Inventors: Biju M. Divassy, Albert C. Liu, Hwaili Soo
  • Publication number: 20140243404
    Abstract: This disclosure is related to halonium compounds useful for cyclization of polyenes, alkenoic acids, and alkenyl alkyl ethers, and halogenation of aromatic compounds. The synthesis of such halonium compounds, compounds made using such halonium compounds, and synthesis of natural compounds, including decalins, using the halonium compounds is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    Inventors: Scott Alan Snyder, Daniel S. Treitler, Alexandria P. Brucks, Andreas Gollner, Maria I. Chiriac, Nathan E. Wright, Jason J. Pflueger, Steven P. Breazzano
  • Publication number: 20140235875
    Abstract: Linear or cyclic carbonates as potential monomers for isocyanate-free polyurethanes and polycarbonates were prepared from polyols and dialkyl carbonates or diphenyl carbonates. This invention was developed to produce linear or cyclic carbonates with or without using catalysts. Polyol compounds were reacted with carbonates such as dimethyl carbonate and diethyl carbonate to produce the corresponding linear and/or cyclic carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Rajni Hatti-Kaul, Sang-Hyun Pyo
  • Publication number: 20140228561
    Abstract: There is provided a metalloporphyrin complex represented by general formula (1): wherein M is a metal; A1 to A4 are independently of each other a substituent represented by general formula (2): -D-E+X???(2) wherein D is a divalent organic group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; E+ is a quaternary ammonium group or quaternary phosphonium group having 3 to 60 carbon atoms; and X is a halogen atom. There is thus provided a metalloporphyrin complex which, when used as a carbon dioxide fixation catalyst, exhibits high catalytic activity, has a small environmental burden and can be easily synthesized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: National University Corporation Okayama University
    Inventors: Tadashi Ema, Takashi Sakai, Yuki Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20140221671
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a porous solid oxidic material from a hydrogel of the oxidic material and to the porous solid oxidic material as such.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Johann Martin Szeifert, Michael Kutschera
  • Publication number: 20140221672
    Abstract: A method of forming a cyclic carbonate product is carried out by reacting an alkylene oxide, such as ethylene oxide, with carbon dioxide in the presence of a metal organic framework (MOF) catalyst with less than 0.5 mol % of any potassium or quaternary ammonium salts present based on moles of alkylene oxide feed in a reaction zone under reaction conditions to form a cyclic carbonate product. The cyclic carbonate product may be optionally fed as a crude carbonate product that does not undergo any purification or separation, other than the optional removal of any portion of unreacted alkylene oxide, carbon dioxide, and light hydrocarbon gases, to a second reaction zone containing a transesterification catalyst along with an aliphatic monohydric alcohol. The cyclic carbonate product and monohydric alcohol are allowed to react under reaction conditions to form the dialkyl carbonate and diol products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiankuan Zhang, Ray Montez
  • Publication number: 20140220122
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods, compounds, compositions and vehicles for delivering 3-amino-1-propanesulfonic acid (3APS) in a subject, preferably a human subject. The invention encompasses compound that will yield or generate 3APS, either in vitro or in vivo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: BHI Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Xianqi KONG, Mohamed ATFANI, Benoit BACHAND, Abderrahim BOUZIDE, Stephane CIBLAT, Sophie LEVESQUE, David MIGNEAULT, Isabelle VALADE, Xinfu WU, Daniel DELORME
  • Patent number: 8735607
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of an alkylene carbonate by the reaction of an alkylene oxide with carbon dioxide in the presence of a phosphonium catalyst in which process (a) the alkylene oxide, carbon dioxide and phosphonium catalyst are continuously introduced into a reaction zone from which a product stream containing alkylene carbonate and phosphonium catalyst is withdrawn; (b) alkylene carbonate and a stream containing phosphoniura catalyst are separated from the product stream; (c) the alkylene carbonate, separated in step (b), is recovered as product; and (d) the stream containing phosphoniura catalyst, separated in step (b), is recycled to the reaction zone, in which process a treatment of alkylene carbonate and/or catalyst with a sorption agent comprising carbon is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Cyrille Paul Allais, Evert Van Der Heide, Gerardus Martinus Maria Van Kessel
  • Patent number: 8735608
    Abstract: A method of forming a cyclic carbonate product is carried out by reacting an alkylene oxide, such as ethylene oxide, with carbon dioxide in the presence of a metal organic framework (MOF) catalyst with less than 0.5 mol % of any potassium or quaternary ammonium salts present based on moles of alkylene oxide feed in a reaction zone under reaction conditions to form a cyclic carbonate product. The cyclic carbonate product may be optionally fed as a crude carbonate product that does not undergo any purification or separation, other than the optional removal of any portion of unreacted alkylene oxide, carbon dioxide, and light hydrocarbon gases, to a second reaction zone containing a transesterification catalyst along with an aliphatic monohydric alcohol. The cyclic carbonate product and monohydric alcohol are allowed to react under reaction conditions to form the dialkyl carbonate and diol products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
    Inventors: Xiankuan Zhang, Ray Montez
  • Publication number: 20140128620
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for the preparation of an alkylene glycol from an alkene. A gas composition from an alkylene oxide reactor is supplied to an alkylene oxide absorber comprising a column of vertically stacked trays or comprising a packed column. Lean absorbent comprising at least 20 wt % water is supplied to the alkylene oxide absorber and is contacted with the gas composition in the presence of one or more catalysts that promote carboxylation and hydrolysis. At least 50% of the alkylene oxide entering the alkylene oxide absorber is converted in the alkylene oxide absorber. Fat absorbent is withdrawn from the absorber, is optionally supplied to finishing reactors and/or a flash vessel or light ends stripper, and is subsequently subjected to dehydration and purification to provide a purified alkylene glycol product stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: SHELL OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Eugene Marie Godfried Andre VAN KRUCHTEN, Dominicus Maria REKERS, Mathias Jozef Paul SLAPAK
  • Patent number: 8663564
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to carbon dioxide sequestration systems and methods. In an embodiment, the invention includes a method of sequestering carbon dioxide. The method can include mixing carbon dioxide with an alcohol to form a reaction mixture and contacting the reaction mixture with a metal oxide catalyst under reaction conditions sufficient to produce a carbonate as a reaction product. In an embodiment, the invention includes a carbon dioxide sequestration system. The system can include a carbon dioxide supply source, an alcohol supply source, and a reaction vessel. A metal oxide catalyst can be disposed within the reaction vessel. The system can be configured to mix carbon dioxide from the carbon dioxide supply source with an alcohol from the alcohol supply source to form a reaction mixture and contact the reaction mixture with the metal oxide catalyst. Other embodiments are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Sartec Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas Nowlan, Clayton V. McNeff
  • Publication number: 20140012019
    Abstract: The present invention provides rhenium-promoted epoxidation catalysts based upon shaped porous bodies comprising a minimized percentage of their total pore volume being present in pores having diameters of less than one micron, and a surface area of at least about 1.0 m2/g. Processes of making the catalysts and using them in epoxidation processes are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: DOW TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS, LLC
    Inventors: Albert C. Liu, Hwaili Soo
  • Publication number: 20140005415
    Abstract: A facile mechanochemical intercalation approach was adopted to immobilize ionic liquids into layered materials. The immobilized ionic liquids were found to be useful as catalysts for the coupling reaction of CO2 and propylene oxide to synthesize propylene carbonate. The immobilized ionic liquid exhibited similar reactivity as the free ionic liquid. Overall, the 10 mechanochemical approach proves to be effective in immobilizing ionic liquids in layered compounds and thus may expand the applications of ionic liquids and, meanwhile, improve catalyst separation and recycling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY-SAN MARCOS
    Inventors: Luyi Sun, Yuezhong Meng, Min Xiao, Hang Hu, Jarrett Clay Martin
  • Publication number: 20130317237
    Abstract: A dimeric aluminium(salen) catalyst of formula I: wherein: (a) at least one R group is selected from L-A, and/or (b) at least one of X group is a divalent C3-7 heterocyclene group, containing a ring atom which is a quaternary nitrogen atom paired with a counterion selected from Cl, Br and I; and/or (c) at least one X group is a C2-5 alkylene chain or a C1-3 bisoxyalkylene chain, substituted by a group -Q-L-A; and/or (ii) (a) one R group is L-A?, or (b) one X group is a divalent C3-7 heterocyclene group, containing a ring atom which is a quaternary nitrogen forming part of an ammonium linking group bound to a solid support and paired with a counterion selected from Cl, Br and I; or (c) one X group is a C2-5 alkylene chain or a C1-3 bisoxyalkylene chain, substituted by a group -Q-L-A?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF NEW CASTLE UPON TYNE
    Inventor: UNIVERSITY OF NEW CASTLE UPON TYNE
  • Publication number: 20130310575
    Abstract: Described herein are inventive methods for synthesis of cyclic carbonates from CO2 and epoxide. In some embodiments, the methods are carried out in the presence of a catalyst comprising an electrophilic halogen. In some embodiments, the methods are carried out in a flow reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventors: Trevor Alan Hatton, Timothy F. Jamison, Jennifer Aiden Kozak, Fritz Simeon, Jie Wu
  • Patent number: 8530676
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the industrial production of vinylene carbonate (VC) by elimination of hydrogen chloride from chloroethylene glycol carbonate (CGC) with tertiary amines in the absence of relatively large amounts of additional solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: SALTIGO GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Langer, Anke Beckmann, Paul Wagner, Heinrich Grzinia, Marielouise Schneider, Ulrich Notheis, Lars Rodefeld, Nikolaus Müller
  • Publication number: 20130225840
    Abstract: A method of forming a cyclic carbonate product is carried out by reacting an alkylene oxide, such as ethylene oxide, with carbon dioxide in the presence of a metal organic framework (MOF) catalyst with less than 0.5 mol % of any potassium or quaternary ammonium salts present based on moles of alkylene oxide feed in a reaction zone under reaction conditions to form a cyclic carbonate product. The cyclic carbonate product may be optionally fed as a crude carbonate product that does not undergo any purification or separation, other than the optional removal of any portion of unreacted alkylene oxide, carbon dioxide, and light hydrocarbon gases, to a second reaction zone containing a transesterification catalyst along with an aliphatic monohydric alcohol. The cyclic carbonate product and monohydric alcohol are allowed to react under reaction conditions to form the dialkyl carbonate and diol products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiankuan Zhang, Ray Montez
  • Publication number: 20130165669
    Abstract: A method of producing a carbonate product including mixing a DMC and methanol mixture with an alcohol, reacting the DMC with the alcohol to form carbonate product, and removing a substantial portion of unreacted DMC and methanol. In one embodiment, the method may be repeated to reach a desired alcohol conversion by adding more DMC and methanol mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: HUNTSMAN PETROCHEMICAL LLC
    Inventors: Haibo Zhao, Mark Posey
  • Publication number: 20120264910
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing carbonates by reacting propylene oxide, ethylene oxide, styrene oxide and/or cyclohexene oxide with carbon dioxide in the presence of one or more catalysts of the formula I where R1 is hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, NR?4—(CH2)2-6—where R? is C1-C6-alkyl; R2 is hydrogen, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl, halogen, amino, nitro, C1-C6-alkoxy or cyano; R3, R4 are each hydrogen or together are a butadienylene moiety which bears the R5 substituent; R5 is C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl, halogen, amino, nitro, C1-C6-alkoxy or cyano; M is Zn(II), Mg(II), Cr(II), Cr(III), Co(II), Co(III), Fe(II) or Fe(III); and X1, X2 are each OCOCH3, OCOCF3, OSO2C7H7 or halogen. More particularly, the invention relates to a process for preparing cyclic carbonates, and to a process for preparing aliphatic polycarbonates using these catalysts I, and to particularly preferred catalysts of the formulae Ia and Ib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Peter Deglmann, Anna Katharina Brym, Joachim Dengler, Petra Lutz-Kahler, Volker Warzelhan, Bernhard Rieger, Stephan Klaus, Maximilian Lehenmeier
  • Patent number: 8241533
    Abstract: This invention publishes new usages of kinds of carbonic ester compounds. The new usage described in this invention is related to the application of carbonic ester compounds in the preparation of solvents for chemiluminescent systems. This invention also provides luminescent compositions, luminescent liquids and oxidized liquids that contain carbonic ester compounds. Chemiluminescent compositions containing carbonic ester compounds can decrease reaction pressure effectively, facilitate reaction balance heading to luminescence reaction, generate larger luminescent output without adding catalyst, decrease the dosage of catalyst or not need adding catalyst, decrease influences of over-high output at the reaction start caused by catalyst on whole luminescent time, and ensure stable light output from luminescent compositions. Carbonic ester compounds, especially long carbon chain carbonic ester, have the characters of non-toxic and high flash point, and have suitable solubility on ordinary bis oxalate ester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Inventor: Chaoyang Jin
  • Publication number: 20120165482
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a carbon-nanomaterial-supported catalyst, including: a carbon nanomaterial, and a polymer grafted onto the carbon nanomaterial, wherein the polymer has a repeat unit containing a phosphonium salt and its molecular weight is 1,000-200,000. The disclosure is also related to a method of preparing carbonate, which includes using the carbon nanomaterial-supported catalyst for the cycloaddition reaction of carbon dioxide into the epoxy group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Cheng-Wei Yeh, Mao-Lin Hsueh, Kuo-Chen Shih, Yi-Zhen Chen
  • Patent number: 8203006
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the industrial production of vinylene carbonate (VC) by eliminating hydrogen chloride from chloroethylene glycol carbonate (CGC) or solid catalysts in the gas phase, the reaction being carried out over a catalyst bed agitated by thorough mixing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Saltigo GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Langer, Anke Beckmann, Andreas Schulze Tilling, Paul Wagner, Leslaw Mleczko, Sigurd Buchholz
  • Patent number: 8193374
    Abstract: The invention provides a reaction system for the production of an alkylene carbonate and/or an alkylene glycol comprising: an epoxidation zone containing an epoxidation catalyst located within an epoxidation reactor; a carboxylation zone containing an iodide-containing carboxylation catalyst located within an alkylene oxide absorber; and one or more purification zones containing a purification absorbent capable of reducing the quantity of iodide-containing impurities in a feed comprising a recycle gas, which purification zones are located upstream from the epoxidation zone; and a process for the production of an alkylene carbonate and/or an alkylene glycol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Wayne Errol Evans, Marek Matusz, Eugene Marie Godfried Andre Van Kruchten, Martin Lysle Hess
  • Publication number: 20110319634
    Abstract: Dimeric aluminium catalysts of formula I: and their use in catalysing the synthesis of cyclic carbonates from epoxides and carbon dioxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
    Inventor: Michael North
  • Patent number: 8071792
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the technical purification of vinylene carbonate (VC) by means of a simple thermal treatment with organic compounds which possess amidic nitrogen-hydrogen bonds, followed by a distillation and a melt crystallization. In this way VC of ultra-high purity is obtained. The high-purity vinylene carbonate can be stored and transported without stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Saltigo GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Langer, Paul Wagner, Heinrich Grzinia
  • Publication number: 20110288309
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to carbon dioxide sequestration systems and methods. In an embodiment, the invention includes a method of sequestering carbon dioxide. The method can include mixing carbon dioxide with an alcohol to form a reaction mixture and contacting the reaction mixture with a metal oxide catalyst under reaction conditions sufficient to produce a carbonate as a reaction product. In an embodiment, the invention includes a carbon dioxide sequestration system. The system can include a carbon dioxide supply source, an alcohol supply source, and a reaction vessel. A metal oxide catalyst can be disposed within the reaction vessel. The system can be configured to mix carbon dioxide from the carbon dioxide supply source with an alcohol from the alcohol supply source to form a reaction mixture and contact the reaction mixture with the metal oxide catalyst. Other embodiments are also described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas Nowlan, Clayton V. McNeff
  • Patent number: 7999122
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the industrial purification of vinylene carbonate (VC). It was found that it is advantageous to subject the VC to be purified, before the purifying distillation, to a simple thermal treatment with organic compounds which have amidic nitrogen-hydrogen bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: SALTIGO GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Langer, Paul Wagner, Heinrich Grzinia
  • Publication number: 20110108762
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of an alkylene carbonate by the reaction of an alkylene oxide with carbon dioxide in the presence of a phosphonium catalyst in which process (a) the alkylene oxide, carbon dioxide and phosphonium catalyst are continuously introduced into a reaction zone from which a product stream containing alkylene carbonate and phosphonium catalyst is withdrawn; (b) alkylene carbonate and a stream containing phosphoniura catalyst are separated from the product stream; (c) the alkylene carbonate, separated in step (b), is recovered as product; and (d) the stream containing phosphoniura catalyst, separated in step (b), is recycled to the reaction zone, in which process a treatment of alkylene carbonate and/or catalyst with a sorption agent comprising carbon is carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Cyrille Paul Allais, Evert Van Der Heide, Gerardus Martinus Maria Van Kessel
  • Publication number: 20110015409
    Abstract: A dimeric aluminium(salen) catalyst of formula I: wherein: Y-Q is CRC1?N or CRC1RC2—NRN1, where RC1, RC2 and RN1 are independently selected from H, halo, optionally substituted C1-20 alkyl, optionally substituted C5-20 aryl, ether and nitro; each of the substituents R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13, R14, R15, and R16, is independently selected from H, halo, optionally substituted C1-20 alkyl, optionally substituted C5-20 aryl, optionally substituted C3-20 heterocyclyl, ether and nitro; X1 and X2 are independently either (i) a C2-5 alkylene chain, which is optionally substituted by one or more groups selected from C1-4 alkyl and C5-7 aryl, or a C1-3 bisoxyalkylene chain, which is optionally substituted by one or more groups selected from C1-4 alkyl and C5-7 aryl or (ii) represent a divalent group selected from C5-7 arylene, C5-7 cyclic alkylene and C3-7 heterocyclylene, which may be optionally substituted; (i) (a) at least one of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13,
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
    Inventor: Michael North
  • Publication number: 20110009645
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the continuous preparation of a 1,3-dioxolan-2-one wherein a discharge from the reaction zone is subjected to a fractionation by means of a semipermeable membrane in order to separate off polymeric by-products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stefan Birnbach, Hans Klink, Hans-Martin Mugrauer, Hartwig Voss
  • Publication number: 20100298561
    Abstract: A drug effective for the treatment and prevention of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, anxiety and related ailments thereof, depression, bipolar disorder and epilepsy. The drug antagonizes the action of group II metabotropic glutamate receptors and shows high activity in oral administration A 2-amino-bicyclo[3.1.0]hexane-2,6-dicarboxylic ester derivative represented by formula [I] [wherein R1 and R2 are identical or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-10alkyl group or the like; X represents a hydrogen atom or a fluorine atom; Y represents —OCHR3R4 or the like (wherein R3 and R4 are identical or different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-10alkyl group or the like; and n represents integer 1 or 2)], a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a hydrate thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: TAISHO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akito YASUHARA, Kazunari Sakagami, Hiroshi Ohta, Atsuro Nakazato
  • Publication number: 20100280261
    Abstract: The present invention provides porous body precursors and shaped porous bodies. Also included are catalysts and other end-use products based upon the shaped porous bodies and thus the porous body precursors. Finally, processes for making these are provided. The porous body precursors are germanium doped and comprise a precursor alumina blend. It has now surprisingly been discovered that inclusion of germanium, alone or in combination with such a blend, in porous body precursors can provide control over, or improvements to, surface morphology, physical properties, and/or surface chemistry of shaped porous bodies based thereupon. Surprisingly and advantageously, heat treating the shaped porous bodies can result in additional morphological changes so that additional fine tuning of the shaped porous bodies is possible in subsequent steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: DOW TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS LLC
    Inventors: Kevin E. Howard, Cathy L. Tway, Peter C. Lebaron, Jamie L. Lovelace, Hirokazu Shibata