University of California

The Scripps Research Institute

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The United States of America As Represented by the United States

Union Carbide Corporation

Chevron Research Company

Robert G Bergman

Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou

Erik J Sorensen

Chan-Kou Hwang

Mary A White

Andrew H Janowicz

Robert E Minto

Robert Discordia

Paul N Becker

Jonathan A Ellman

Leonard Kaplan

Michael J Wax

Roy A Periana-Pillai

J Michael Buchanan

Peter C Marsden

Roy A Periana

Jeffrey M Stryker

Elena Arceo Rebollo

A method of preparing an olefin comprising: reacting a polyol in the presence of a carboxylic acid, such that an olefin is produced by the deoxygenation of the polyol. The reacting step can comprise (a) providing a composition comprising the polyol, (b) heating the composition, and (c) introducing the carboxylic acid to the composition wherein the introducing step occurs prior to, at the same time as, or subsequent to the heating step. In one embodiment, the polyol is glycerol, the carboxylic acid is formic acid, and the olefin is allyl alcohol, which is produced at a yield of about 80% or greater.

Method of converting a polyol to an olefin

Open chain enediyne dihydroperoxides having eight carbons between the hydroperoxide groups that cleave DNA are disclosed, as are methods of making and using the same.

Open chain enediyne dihydroperoxides having DNA cleaving properties

Macrocyclic enediynediols and enediynediones having a ten carbon ring and open chain enediyne dihydroperoxides having eight carbons between the hydroperoxide groups that cleave DNA are disclosed, as are methods of making and using the same.

Ten-membered ring enediynediols and enediynediones having DNA cleaving

A process for functionalizing methane comprising:

Hydridomethyl iridium complex

Process for functionalizing saturated hydrocarbons comprising:

Process for functionalizing alkanes

Process for functionalizing saturated hydrocarbons selectively in the terminal position comprising:

This invention provides a general method for the conversion of alkenes to primary vicinal diamines by use of a cobalt alkylnitroso complex and reduction with lithium aluminum hydride. A preferred species has the structure ##STR1##

Cobalt alkylnitroso complexes and methods therewith

This invention relates to the manufacture of ethylene glycol, methanol, and derivatives thereof from the reaction of hydrogen and oxides of carbon, by a homogeneous catalytic process using as the catalyst a solubilized ruthenium carbonyl complex and an organosilicon compound having a hydrogen bonded to silicon (--Si--H).

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Kensington, CA, United States of America

Robert G Bergman