Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Ken-ichi Kiyono

Kazunori Oshima

Takashi Ushikubo

Itaru Sawaki

Tiaki Umezawa

Atsushi Kayo

Hiroya Nakamura

Satoshi Kobayakawa

Kei Inumaru

A catalyst for the production of a nitrile from an alkane, which satisfies the following conditions 1 and 2:

Catalyst for the production of nitriles

A process for preparing a catalyst useful for producing a nitrile by a gas phase catalytic oxidation reaction of an alkane with ammonia, which comprises drying a solution or slurry containing molybdenum, vanadium and tellurium by a spray drying method or a freeze-drying method and heat-treating the resulting dried product.

Process for preparing a catalyst useful for producing a nitrile

A process for producing a nitrile, which comprises subjecting an alkane and ammonia in the gaseous state to catalytic oxidation in the presence of a catalyst which satisfies the following conditions of (1) and (2):

Process for producing nitriles

A process for producing a nitrile, which comprises subjecting an alkane and ammonia in the gaseous state to catalytic oxidation in the presence of an oxide of the formula:

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Ken-ichi Kiyono