The Standard Oil Company

Larry Michael Cirjak

Marc Anthony Pepera

Tama Lee Drenski

Anne Venturelli

Timothy J Cassidy

A catalyst useful in the manufacture of acrylonitrile or methacrylonitrile by the catalytic reaction in the vapor phase of a paraffin selected from propane and isobutane with molecular oxygen and ammonia by catalytic contact of the reactants in a reaction zone with a catalyst, the feed composition having a mole ratio of the paraffin to ammonia in the range of about 1.0 to 10 and a mole ratio of paraffin to oxygen in the range of about 1.0 to 10, wherein said catalyst has the elements in the proportions indicated by the empirical formula:

Gallium promoted molybdenum vanadium-antimony-oxide based catalyst for

A method of preparing a V.sub.a Sb.sub.b M.sub.m N.sub.n O.sub.x catalyst useful in the ammoxidation of a C.sub.2 -C.sub.5 hydrocarbon to its corresponding .alpha., .beta. unsaturated nitrile comprising heating an aqueous mixture comprising V.sub.2 O.sub.5 and Sb.sub.2 O.sub.3 at a temperature above about 100.degree. to 250.degree. C., preferably 110.degree. to 175.degree. C., most preferably 120.degree. to 160.degree. C., under autogenous pressure with agitation to form a catalyst precursor, drying the catalyst precursor and calcining the catalyst precursor to form the finished catalyst.

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Larry Michael Cirjak