Union Carbide Corporation

Frank G Young

Erlind M Thorsteinson

Aliphatic aldehydes are prepared from carboxylic acid esters of primary alcohols by contacting the latter with a wide variety of oxidized elements selected from V, Sb, Mo, and W as well as oxidized element from groups I, III-B, IV, VII-A, and VIII of the periodic system of elements.

Preparation of aliphatic aldehydes from esters

Ethane is catalytically oxydehydrogenated to ethylene in a gas phase reaction, in the presence or absence of water, at temperatures of .ltoreq.550.degree. C. using a catalyst comprising oxides of the elements

Low temperature oxydehydrogenation of ethane to ethylene

A catalyst composition consisting essentially of a non-linear polymer consisting essentially of a recurring unit having the following structural formula:

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Frank G Young