University of Connecticut

Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Toyota Motor Corporation

Young Chan Son

Steven Lawrence Suib

Hirohito Hirata

Paul Timothy Fanson

Masaya Ibe

Amy R Howell

A process for cracking hydrocarbons at atmospheric pressure includes the following steps: providing a catalyst, passing a gaseous hydrocarbon over the catalyst and exposing the catalyst to microwave energy. The hydrocarbons are broken down into lower Carbon number molecules.

Process using microwave energy and a catalyst to crack hydrocarbons

A method of oxidizing an organic alcohol, wherein the organic alcohol is contacted with a stoichiometric excess of oxygen in the presence of an effective catalytic amount of a maganese-containing octahedral molecular sieve or octahedral layer. Primary alcohols are selectively oxidized to aldehydes, and secondary alcohols are selectively oxidized to ketones.

Catalytic oxidation of alcohols using manganese oxides

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Storrs, CT, United States of America

Young Chan Son