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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1990
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul E Ellis, Jr, Downingtown, PA (US);
James E Lyons, Wallingford, PA (US);
Harry K Myers, Jr, Cochranville, PA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Refining and Marketing Company, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ; C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
568399 ; 260413 ; 2604 / ; 560241 ; 568398 ; 568910 ; 5689105 ; 562512 ; 562549 ;
Abstract
Hydrocarbons, and particularly lower molecular weight alkanes and cycloalkanes, may readily be oxidized with air or O.sub.2 to form such products as alcohols, ketones, and the like selectively high yields when there is employed as the catalyst a coordination complex containing an iron center and a halogenated ligand having the structure ##STR1## where Fe is iron; ' .circle. ' is a ligand; X is a halogen substituent of the ligand; and A is an anion.