Atlantic Richfield Company

Walter A Mameniskis

Ming N Sheng

Frank W Melpolder

Vijai P Gupta

Patrick Walter Ryan

Purification of acetophenone containing difficultly separable impurities by extractive distillation with a solvent selected from the group consisting of oligomers of 1,2-glycols, said oligomers having from 4 to 9 carbon atoms per molecule.

Acetophenone purification

In the process of producing a diisocyanate comprising

Preparation of polyisocyanates from polycarbamates

Method for preparing polyols such as diols and triols by the homogeneous catalytic hydroxylation of an olefinic compound by contacting the olefinic compound with an organic hydroperoxide in an aqueous solution at an initial pH above 8 in the presence of a catalytic amount of a water soluble osmium compound as the catalyst.

Osmium catalyzed organic hydroperoxide hydroxylation of olefinic

A light gas oil, consisting predominantly of alkylated naphthalenes plus minor amounts of thiophene, quinoline, indan, and related naphthalene type carbonaceous compounds, derived from the liquid by-product from olefin production by pyrolysis in steam of a hydrocarbon fraction, is converted to mononuclear aromatic hydrocarbons by a two stage process in which said naphthalene type carbonaceous compounds are first hydrogenated at tetralinizing conditions saturating only one of the two aromatic rings of the feedstock. Said first stage hydrogenation also hydrodesulfurizes and hydrodecontaminates said feedstock. The tetralanized desulfurized normally liquid effluent from the first stage hydrogenation is hydrocracked in the second stage, said hydrocracking being in the presence of a catalyst featuring a stabilizing metal component on an acid-modified mordenite having a silica to alumina unit mol ratio within the range from 15 to 70 as a result of acid leaching of mordenite.

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Drexel Hill, PA, United States of America

Walter A Mameniskis