Rhodia Operations

Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

Nissan Chemical Industries Limited

East China Normal University

Ecole Normale Superieure De Lyon

Ecole Normale Supericure De Lyon

Floryan Decampo

Peng Li

Stéphane Jeol

Wenjuan Zhou

Xiaoshuang Feng

Leon Zhu

Peng Wu

Yan Zhao

Luca Merlo

Subramanian Kesavan

Gary Woodward

Claudio Oldani

Franck Dumeignil

Sébastien Paul

Jing Wang

Kai Xue

Benjamin Katryniok

Zhaoyu Fan

Sergey B Li

Fabien Grasset

Mingyuan He

Marc Pera Titus

Mohamad Ousmane

Jean-Marc Clacens

Damien Cartigny

Shilei Chen

Yueming Liu

Veronique Rataj

Astrid Tay

Jean Marc Clacens

Laura Difalco

The present disclosure relates to a process for the production of aromatic primary amines, by reacting an aromatic dialdehyde with hydrogen and ammonia or an ammonia-liberating compound, in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst and an amine, wherein the molar ratio of the amine to the aromatic dialdehyde is no less than 1:4 at the start of the reaction.

Process for producing aromatic primary diamines

A process for the production of aromatic primary amines, by reacting an aromatic dialdehyde with hydrogen and ammonia or an ammonia-liberating compound, in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst and an amine, wherein the molar ratio of the amine to the aromatic dialdehyde is no less than 1:4 at the start of the reaction.

Described herein are non-aqueous ink compositions containing a polythiophene having a repeating unit complying with formula (I) described herein, one or more metallic nanoparticles, and a liquid carrier having one or more organic solvents. The present disclosure also concerns the uses of such non-aqueous ink compositions, for example, in organic electronic devices. 

Non-aqueous ink compositions containing metallic nanoparticles suitable for use in organic electronics

The present disclosure relates to a novel polyamide synthesized from biobased monomers. The novel polyamide comprises the repeating unit of formula I, described herein, in which R represents a covalent bond or a divalent hydrocarbon-based group chosen from saturated or unsaturated aliphatics, saturated or unsaturated cycloaliphatics, aromatics, arylaliphatics and alkylaromatics. The present disclosure also relates to a process for preparing the said polyamide, to its uses, and to articles and compositions comprising the said polyamide.

Polyamide, preparation process therefor and uses thereof

Disclosed is a process for preparing at least one ether compound, comprising reacting at least one alcohol (I) with at least one polyol (II) in the presence of a functional polymer [polymer (F)] as a catalyst (X), wherein: the alcohol (I) is represented by the general formula (1): R1-OH (1) wherein R1 is a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 36 carbon atoms, the polyol (II) is represented by the general formula (2): R2-(OH) m (2) wherein R2 represents the skeleton moiety of the polyol and m is an integer of from 2 to 20, and polymer (F) is a polymer comprising recurring units derived from at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer [monomer (M)] and bearing at least one cation exchange group. Further disclosed is a surfactant composition obtained by said process, and featuring an excellent detergency performance.

Surfactant composition comprising ether compound and catalytic process for manufacturing thereof

The present invention concerns a method of oxidizing a cycloalkane to form a product mixture containing a corresponding alcohol and ketone, said method comprising contacting a cycloalkane with an oxidant agent in the presence of catalytic effective amount of metal triflates or metal triflimidates catalysts.

Cycloalkane oxidation catalysts and method to produce alcohols and ketones

Disclosed is a method of oxidizing a cycloalkane to form a product mixture containing a corresponding alcohol and ketone, said method comprising contacting a cycloalkane with a hydroperoxide in the presence of a catalytic effective amount of a crystalline MWW-type titanosilicate catalyst. Hydroperoxides may notably be tert-butyl hydroperoxide, tert-amyl hydroperoxide, cumene hydroperoxide, ethylbenzene hydroperoxide, cyclohexyl hydroperoxide, methylcyclohexyl hydroperoxide, tetralin hydroperoxide, isobutylbenzene hydroperoxide, and ethylnaphthalene hydroperoxide.

The present invention relates to a novel polyamide synthesized from biobased monomers. The novel polyamide comprises the repeating unit of formula (I) below: Formula (I), in which R represents a covalent bond or a divalent hydrocarbon-based chosen from saturated or unsaturated aliphatics, saturated or unsaturated cycloaliphatics, aromatics, arylaliphatics and alkylaromatics. The present invention also relates to the process for preparing the said polyamide, to its uses, and to articles and compositions comprising the polyamide. 

The present invention relates to a novel polyamide synthesized from biobased monomers. The novel polyamide comprises the repeat unit of following formula (I). The present invention also relates to the process for the preparation of said polyamide, to its uses and to articles and compositions comprising said polyamide. 

Polyamide, preparation process and uses

The present invention concerns a process for the production of an aldehyde compound by an oxidation reaction of an alcohol compound in the presence of a mesostructured vanadium phosphorus mixed oxide catalyst, at a temperature comprised between 50&#xb0; C. and 200&#xb0; C., in presence of an oxidant. The reaction medium may also comprise a solvent.

Oxidation of alcohol compounds via mesostructured VPO catalysts

The present invention concerns a process to obtain primary, secondary or tertiary amines, via a direct amination reaction of alcohols in presence of bis(perfluoroalkylsulfonimide) acid or salts thereof catalysts, and derivatives.

Process for forming a primary, a secondary or a tertiary amine via a direct amination reaction

A process for the preparation of an ether compound is disclose, wherein the ether compound is prepared via a reaction from at least an alcohol (I) and an alcohol (II), optionally using a catalyst X, wherein alcohol (I) and alcohol (II) are forming a biphasic liquid system when mixed together; comprising at least the following steps: a) Producing an alcohol (I)/alcohol (II) emulsion by using as stabilizing species amphiphilic solid particles of nanometric dimension; optionally comprising a catalyst X; b) Proceeding to the reaction of the ether compound by setting temperature, and c) Isolating the ether compound.

Preparation of an ether compound

A depolymerized-carboxyalkyl polysaccharide formed by de polymerizing a polysaccharide having from 0.5 to 3.0 degrees of substitution and reducing the molecular weight of said polysaccharide before or after said depolymerizing provides a biodegradable scale inhibitor useful to prevent deposition of scale comprising, for example, calcium, barium, sulfate and salts thereof. The depolymerized carboxyalkyl polysaccharide is particularly useful in off shore oil production squeeze treatments and in the treatment of scale formed in industrial water treatment.

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