University of Delaware

University of California

Bruce C Gates

Alexander S Katz

Xiaoying Ouyang

Ron Runnebaum

Alexander Okrut

Dan Fraenkel

Pei-Ling Zhou

Vincent L Magnotta

George C Schuit

Provided is an organic ligand-bound metal surface that selects one gaseous species over another. The species can be closely sized molecular species having less than 1 Angstrom difference in kinetic diameter. In one embodiment, the species comprise carbon monoxide and ethylene. Such organic ligand-bound metal surfaces can be successfully used in gas phase separations or purifications, sensing, and in catalysis.

Ligand-modified metal clusters for gas separation and purification

It has been found that strongly basic molecular sieves can be used to make stable, relatively selective catalysts for reactions between carbon- and hydrogen-containing species if the strongly basic molecular sieve is combined with a volatile transition metal carbonyl compound. Although the volatile transition metal compound preferably contains initially only a single transition metal atom, clusterification can convert this compound to a compound or ion of the formula

Stable zeolite-supported transition metal catalysts, methods for making

A Fischer-Tropsch catalyst comprising a particulate synthetic zeolite incorporating a transition metal catalyst reduced in situ by a preselected vaporous reductant metal, the method of catalytic manufacture and use.

Catalyst, method for catalyst manufacture and use

Solids have been prepared having very strongly acidic properties for hydrocarbon reactions. The solids are synthesized from anhydrous AlCl.sub.3 and a solid Bronsted acid.

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Bruce C Gates