E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

University of Delaware

E. I. Du Pont De Nemours + Company

George C Sonnichsen

David Richard Corbin

Loren D Brake

Horacio E Bergna

Donald J Dumas

Henry C Foley

Robert D Shannon

Konstantinos Kourtakis

Ravindra K Mariwala

Thurman E Gier

Bijan Amini

David S Lafyatis

Kostantinos Kourtakis

Harold E Bellis

Ronald A Fong

Vinayakam Subramanyam

Lloyd Abrams

Michael Keane, Jr

Davis S Lafyatis

This invention provides an attrition resistant catalyst composition and method for producing such composition. The catalyst is comprised of an acidic zeolite, rho or chabazite, and a particulate binder, kaolin, bentonite, alpha-alumina, or titania, which can be optionally modified by treatment with a compound containing Si, Al, P or B. This invention further provides a process for producing methylamines, preferably dimethylamine, comprising reacting methanol and/or dimethyl ether and ammonia in the presence of a catalytic amount of an attrition resistant catalyst of the invention.

Attrition resistant zeolite catalysts for production of methylamines in

This invention relates to cation substituted catalysts based primarily upon vanadium pyrophosphate, useful in the oxidation of alkane hydrocarbons.

Catalyst and method for vapor phase oxidation of alkane hydrocarbons

The present invention relates to an improved catalyst for the selective synthesis of monomethylamine (MMA) and dimethylamine (DMA) at the expense of trimethylamine (TMA) for a starting feed of methanol and/or dimethyl ether and ammonia. The current industrial catalyst for this process is a standard SiO.sub.2 /Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 material. The present invention combines this standard catalyst with microporous carbon molecular sieves (CMS) to form a composite material (i.e., a CMS/SiO.sub.2 /Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 material) with higher selectivity for the desired products MMA and DMA. The invention also relates to methods of making the improved catalyst and a process of using the improved catalyst material in the production of MMA and DMA.

CMS/SiO.sub.2 /Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 catalysts for improved selectivity in

An improved process for preparing phenyl esters of alkanoyloxyacetic acids in which phenyl chloroacetate is reacted with the salt of a carboxylic acid.

Process for preparing phenyl esters of substituted acids

An improved process for preparing alkanoyloxyacetyloxybenzenesulfonate salts in which phenyl esters of alkanoyloxyacetic acids (alkanoyloxyacetyloxybenzenes) are sulfonated to yield novel alkanoyloxyacetyloxybenzenesulfonic acids which, on neutralization, yield the corresponding alkanoyloxyacetyloxybenzenesulfonate salts.

Process for preparing benzenesulfonate salts

Phenyl esters of substituted acids are prepared by a two-step process in which a phenol derivative is first treated with an acid halide to yield a phenyl ester intermediate, and the intermediate is reacted with an appropriate nucleophile.

A process is provided for producing dimethylamine, comprising reacting methanol and/or dimethylether and ammonia, in amounts sufficient to provide a carbon/nitrogen (C/N) ratio of from about 0.2 to about 1.5, at a temperature from about 250.degree. C. to about 450.degree. C., in the presence of a catalytic amount of an acidic zeolite rho.

Zeolite Rho as catalyst for conversion of methanol and ammonia to

A process for producing dimethylamine is provided, comprising reacting methanol and/or dimethylether and ammonia, in amounts sufficient to provide a carbon/nitrogen (C/N) ratio from about 0.2 to about 1.5, and at a temperature from about 250.degree. C. to about 450.degree. C., in the presence of a catalytic amount of a modified acidic zeolite selected from the group consisting of chabazite, erionite, ZK-5, and rho, the zeolite having been modified by treatment with one or more compounds containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of silicon, aluminum, phosphorus, and boron, to deposit thereon at least 0.05 weight percent of the element.

Modified 8-ring zeolites as catalysts

A process is provided for producing dimethylamine, comprising reacting methanol and/or dimethylether and ammonia in amounts sufficient to provide a carbon/nitrogen (C/N) ratio from about 0.2 to about 1.5, at a temperature from about 250.degree. C. to about 450.degree. C., in the presence of a catalytic amount of an acidic zeolite catalyst selected from the group consisting of natural, H-exchanged, and M-exchanged chabazites, each having a geometric selectivity index greater than about 3, wherein M is one or more alkali metal ions selected from the group consisting of Na, K, Rb, and Cs.

Selected chabazite zeolites as catalysts for conversion of methanol and

Modified 8-ring zeolites as catalysts for conversion of methanol and

A process is provided for producing dimethylamine comprising reacting methanol and/or dimethylether and ammonia in amounts sufficient to provide a carbon/nitrogen (C/N) ratio from about 0.2 to about 1.5, at a temperature from about 250.degree. C. to about 450.degree. C., in the presence of a catalytic amount of an acidic H-ZK-5 zeolite catalyst.

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George C Sonnichsen