Gulf Research & Development Company

Gulf Oil Corporation

Grdc, LLC

Edward T Sabourin

Charles M Selwitz

Anatoli Onopchenko

Johann G Schulz

Walter P Barie, Jr

Kiran R Bakshi

Harold E Swift

Roger F Vogel

J Gustav Schulz

Stephen S Hupp

James Joseph Harrison

Adrian D'Souza

A process for the production of tetra- and trialkylsilanes which comprises reacting

Silahydrocarbons from alkylchlorosilanes

Tetraalkylsilane compounds are produced by contacting an admixture comprising

Tetraalkylsilane synthetic fluids

The silahydrocarbon product containing at least 75 weight percent of saturated silahydrocarbons with the remainder being unsaturated silahydrocarbons is produced by a process in which admixture comprising

Production of saturated and unsaturated silahydrocarbon mixtures using

A process for the preparation and recovery of m,m'-dinitrobenzophenone and which comprises reacting benzophenone with nitric acid in oleum; adjusting the reaction product to a water content from 12 to 30 weight percent; and extracting the m,m'-dinitrobenzophenone with a chlorinated hydrocarbon solvent.

Isolation of m,m'-dinitrobenzophenone

A novel ether solution of dinitrobenzophenone and a process for preparing an ether solution of diaminobenzophenone therefrom which comprises subjecting a dinitrobenzophenone dissolved in said ether solvent to hydrogenation in contact with a continuous nickel catalyst to obtain said solution of diaminobenzophenone dissolved in said ether solvent. In a specific embodiment said nickel catalyst is mounted on an inert support. In a still further embodiment, said diaminobenzophenone dissolved in said ether solvent, after removal of water therefrom, is reacted with an aromatic dianhydride to obtain a polyamic acid solution. The polyamic acid solution can be heated at a temperature above 100.degree. C. to drive off water of cyclization and thereby obtain the corresponding polyimide resin.

Process for preparing an ether solution of polyamic acids and polyimide

A one-step solution technique for preparing an aromatic polyimide acid which comprises reacting an aromatic dianhydride with an aromatic diamine in the presence of diglyme and a sufficient amount of a co-solvent to maintain the polyimide acid in solution, said co-solvent having the formula:

Method of preparation of polyimide acids

A one-step solution technique for preparing an aromatic polyimide acid which comprises reacting an aromatic dianhydride with an aromatic diamine in the presence of propylene glycol methyl ether.

Preparation of an aromatic polyimide acid by solution polymerization

A process for preparing dinitrobenzophenones which comprises reacting benzene with ethylene in the presence of an alkylation catalyst to obtain an alkylation product containing unreacted benzene, ethylbenzene, polyethylbenzenes, 1,1-diphenylethane and heavier products, separating benzene, ethylbenzene and polyethylbenzenes from said alkylation product, recovering from the remainder of said alkylation product a fraction whose boiling points fall within the temperature range of about 260.degree. to about 290.degree. C., reacting said fraction with nitric acid at a temperature within the range of about 130.degree. to about 210.degree. C., wherein the molar ratio of nitric acid to said fraction is in the range of about 3:1 to about 8:1, and thereafter reacting the total resulting reaction product with nitric acid in oleum to obtain a nitration product predominating in dinitrobenzophenones.

Process for preparing dinitrobenzophenones

Compounds of the general structural formula, ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is C.sub.1 to C.sub.4 lower alkyl, cycloalkyl or alkylamino and R.sup.2 is H or lower N-alkylcarbamyl are made from corresponding m-aminophenylacetylenic compounds by conventional methods and are useful as selective herbicides.

M-Alkynylanilides and use as herbicides

A process for preparing m,m'-dinitrobenzophenone which comprises reacting benzophenone with nitric acid in oleum.

Process for preparing m,m'-dinitrobenzophenone

Acetylene terminated sulfones and oligomers thereof are prepared by reacting a sulfonyldiphenol with a material selected from the group consisting of a meta-dibromobenzene, a para-dibromobenzene and mixtures thereof in the presence of a potassium base to form a bis-bromophenoxydiphenyl sulfone, which is reacted with a substituted terminal acetylene compound containing at least three carbon atoms and an hydroxy group on the carbon atom adjacent to the acetylene group to form an hydroxy-acetylene terminated phenoxydiphenyl sulfone, which is then subjected to base catalyzed cleavage to form the desired acetylene terminated sulfones and oligomers. An hydroxy-arylacetylene terminated sulfone is prepared by reacting a sulfonyldiphenyl with a material selected from the group consisting of meta-dibromobenzene para-dibromobenzene and mixtures thereof in the presence of a sodium base. The resulting hydroxyphenylbromophenoxyphenyl sulfone can be: (1) reacted with a substituted terminal acetylene compound to form an hydroxy-arylacetylene terminated sulfone which in turn can be reacted with a dinitrofluorobenzene to form a dinitro-acetylene terminated sulfone which in turn can be reacted with sodium dithionite and sodium hydroxide to form a diaminoacetylene terminated sulfone; (2) reacted with a dibromobenzene to form a bis-bromophenoxydiphenyl sulfone; or (3) reacted with a bis-bromophenoxydiphenyl sulfone to form an oligomeric bromophenoxydiphenyl sulfone, which can be used to form an oligomeric actylene terminated sulfone. Metal contaminants, such as palladium and copper, used in the preparation of the acetylene terminated sulfones are removed by admixing the metal contaminated sulfone with a hydrogen halide and then contacting the admixture with an amino compound to complex the metal contaminant.

Process for preparation of acetylene terminated sulfones, oligomers and

A process for reducing the amount of ortho nitro aromatic keto compounds in a mixture containing the same which comprises contacting such mixture with oleum.

Purification process

3,3'-diamino-4,4'-benzophenonedicarboxylic acid, 4,4'-diamino-3,3'-benzophenonedicarboxylic acid and 3,4'-diamino-3',4-benzophenonedicarboxylic acid and process for preparing same.

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