Abstract: A process for removing alkynes from hydrocarbon mixtures, particularly those containing butadiene by reacting the alkynes with hydroxyl group containing organic compounds in the presence of a silver exchanged ion-exchange resin and separating the products formed from the unreacted components of said mixture.

Abstract: A process for the production of a mono- or poly-alkylene glycol diether which consists of reacting an ether having at least one lower alkyl group with alkylene oxide in the presence of a heteropoly acid or a heteropoly acid acidic salt. Heteropoly acids and their acidic salts whose ratio of the hetero and coordinate atom is 1:6 and 1:12 are preferably used.

Abstract: In a process for preparing an ether having a tertiary alkyl group by the reaction of a primary or secondary alcohol with the tertiary olefin in a tertiary olefin-containing mixed hydrocarbon, said reaction is carried out in the presence of an adduct of the starting alcohol with a heteropoly acid or salt thereof containing at least one member selected from the group consisting of P, Si, B, Ge, As, Se, Ti, Zr, Mn, F, U, Ce and Th as a central element, at least Mo and/or W as a coordinating element and at least one member selected from the group consisting of H, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, NR.sup.4 R.sup.5 R.sup.6 R.sup.7 wherein R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 are hydrogen atoms or alkyl groups, Mg, Ca, Ba, Zr, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Mi, Cu, Ag, Zn, Cd, Hg, Al, Pb and Bi as cations, the ratio of the number of the coordinating elements to the number of the central elements being 2.

Abstract: Ethers of polyols are prepared by reaction of a polyol and an organic chloride in a two phase medium in the presence of a phase transfer catalyst. The ethers of polyols are useful as synthetic lubricants, as lubricant bases, as lubricant additives and as fuel additives.

Abstract: This invention pertains to the production of ethylene glycol monoalkyl ethers by reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrogen with (a) formaldehyde and an alcohol or (b) an acetal in the presence of a catalyst comprising a cobalt-containing compound and a tin or germanium promoter.

Abstract: A method for conducting chemical reactions and fractionation of the reaction mixture comprising feeding reactants to a distillation column reactor into a feed zone and concurrently contacting the reactants with a fixed bed catalytic packing to concurrently carry out the reaction and fractionate the reaction mixture.For example, a method for preparing methyl tertiary butyl ether in high purity from a mixed feed stream of isobutene and normal butene comprising feeding the mixed feed stream to a distillation column reactor into a feed zone at the lower end of a distillation reaction zone, and methanol into the upper end of said distillation reaction zone, which is packed with a properly supported cationic ion exchange resin, contacting the C.sub.4 feed and methanol with the catalytic distillation packing to react methanol and isobutene, and concurrently fractionating the ether from the column below the catalytic zone and removing normal butene overhead above the catalytic zone.

Abstract: A method for the production of ethylene glycol dialkyl ethers from dialkyl ethers and ethylene glycol monoalkyl ethers by means of passing these reactants over a heterogeneous anionic ion exchange resin catalyst is described. The reaction may be conducted at temperatures ranging from about 100.degree. to about 250.degree. C. and at pressures ranging from about 50 to about 500 psig. This method avoids some of the separation difficulties associated with preparing these compounds by prior wet chemistry methods.

Abstract: This invention pertains to the production of glycol monoalkyl ethers and dialkyl ethers by reaction of an aldehyde, and an alcohol with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst comprising a cobalt-containing compound and a cyclopentadienyl ligand.

Abstract: This invention pertains to the production of glycol monoalkyl ethers and dialkyl ethers by reaction of an aldehyde, and an alcohol with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst comprising a cobalt-containing compound and a Group VIB donor ligand.

Abstract: An improved process for producing ethylene glycol mono-tert-butyl ether by reacting ethylene glycol with isobutylene in the presence of a catalyst of strongly acidic cation-exchange material is disclosed which enables the production of ethylene glycol mono-tert-butyl ether in a high yield while suppressing the formation of by-product ethylene glycol di-tert-butyl ether by previously adding ethylene glycol di-tert-butyl ether to the reaction system and conducting the reaction at temperatures of about 60 to 130.degree. C.

Abstract: Formose solutions are hydrogenated in a batchwise alkaline two-stage catalytic process to produce low molecular weight polyhydric alcohols.

Abstract: This invention is concerned with the employment of a water-soluble initiator, of sucrose, sorbitiol, trimethylpropane, ammonia or amine and water to form an initiator which is mixed and reacted with alkylene oxide in the presence of water and without the use of an added catalyst to produce polyether polyols for use in the production of urethane foams.

Abstract: Mono- and poly-ethylene glycol dialkyl ethers IR.sup.1 --O--(--CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --O--).sub.n --R.sup.2where R.sup.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, R.sup.2 is C.sub.3 -C.sub.5 -alkyl and n is from 1 to 100, are prepared by reacting monoalkyl ethers IIR.sup.1 --O--(--CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --O--).sub.n --Hwith a C.sub.3 -C.sub.5 -olefin III in the presence of an acid ion exchanger at from 1 to 200 bar and from 40.degree. to 150.degree. C., the reaction being started at from 100.degree. to 150.degree. C. and the temperature then being lowered, in at least two approximately equal steps, to from 40.degree. to 80.degree. C., the temperature being dropped in each case to the next-lower level when the conversion per unit time no longer changes significantly.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of dimethyl glycol by the hydrogenolysis of methylglycol formal in the presence of catalysts which consist of oxide mixtures of silicon and aluminum and/or of rare earths, as well as of metallic nickel and/or cobalt and/or copper, wherein the catalysts contain additionally as promoter metallic palladium and/or rhodium and/or platinum.