Abstract:
A paraffin of 4-12 carbon atoms is isomerized with a Lewis acid catalyst and solvent comprising, for example, carbon dioxide, hydrogen chloride or hydrogen bromide at a temperature above the critical temperature of the mixture of said hydrocarbon and solvent, under pressure sufficient to impart a density of at least about one-tenth that of pure solvent (liquid), saturated at 20*C. The pressure is in the range of 1,000 to 5,000 psig. In a preferred embodiment, normal paraffins containing from 4 to 12 carbons are isomerized with an aluminum bromide catalyst in the presence of carbon dioxide at a temperature above the critical temperature of the mixture and a pressure sufficient to impart a density of at least one-tenth that of pure CO2 liquid saturated with vapor at 20*C.
Abstract:
ADDITION OF ETHERS AS PROMOTERS FOR LEWIS ACID CATALYZED ISOMERIZATION, PREFERABLE TAKING PLACE WITHIN A HALO-AROMATIC SOLVENT, RESULTS IN THE SUPPRESSION OF CRACKING AND A CORRESPONDING MAXIMIZATION OF THE DESIRED ISOMERIZATION PRODUCTS. THE ETHERS CONTAIN AT LEAST ONE SECONDARY OR TERTIARY ALKYL RADICALS OR CYCLOALKYL RADICALS.
Abstract:
Adamantyl carboxylic acids and/or sulfonic acids are used to increase reaction rates of paraffin conversion to branched chain paraffins in a strong acid system.
Abstract:
(U.S. 37,877) A method for the separation of isotopes is disclosed including providing a vapor of a compound of the element whose isotopes are to be separated, the compound having an isotopically shifted but overlapping infrared absorption spectrum associated with the isotopes of that element within a predetermined temperature range, irradiating the vapor with a predetermined fluence of infrared radiation which is preferentially absorbed by a molecular vibration of the molecules of the compound containing a predetermined isotope of the element, thereby providing excited molecules enriched in the predetermined isotope, while maintaining the vapor at a temperature within the predetermined temperature range which, at thermal equilibrium, provides sufficient molecules requiring more than a single photon to promote dissociation so that upon dissociation the isotopic selectivity is at least ten percent above the maximum selectivity which can be achieved with an ensemble of molecules, each of which can dissociate by absorbing a single photon. In a preferred embodiment, the isotopes of uranium are separated utilizing uranyl compounds having the formula UO2A2.L where A is a monovalent anion and L is a neutral ligand having a basicity towards the uranyl ion equal to or stronger than that of tetrahydrofuran (THF).