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A process for preparing a detergent alcohol mixture comprising the steps of providing one or more poly-branched poly-olefins, wherein the poly-branched poly-olefins must contain one non-branched terminal olefin and one or more additional branched olefins in the molecule; hydroformylating said poly-branched poly-olefins to produce a poly-branched olefin containing aldehyde product with one or more olefins or mixture thereof; reducing the aldehyde product of step (b) in the presence of hydrogen and a hydrogenation catalyst to form a poly-branched detergent alcohol mixture; and removing said poly-branched alcohol mixture from said catalyst and branched aldehydes, alcohols and surfactants produced from the products of this process.

The present invention provides an improved process for the synthesis of α-substituted acroleins from olefins by a tandem hydroformylation and Mannich reaction sequence in the presence of syngas and formaldehyde, wherein the two catalysts are segregated into two different phases thereby preventing deactivation of the catalysts by each other, and yielding a highly selective and active catalyst.

The invention relates to synthesis of first-class phosphorus functionalized polyether alkyl guanidinium ionic liquid, and an application of the first-class phosphorus functionalized polyether alkyl guanidinium ionic liquid in a homogeneous catalytic reaction. The functionalized ionic liquid of such class can be easily prepared by an ion exchange reaction between the polyether alkyl guanidinium ionic liquid and sulfonic acid type water soluble phosphine ligand. The designed phosphorus functionalized ionic liquid can be applied to organic reactions, including hydroformylation, hydroesterification, hydrocarboxylation and catalytic hydrogenation under the catalyzing of a transition metal; the dosage of the ionic liquid used in the catalytic reaction can be decreased; the activity of the catalytic reaction can be improved; a catalyst can be separated and cycled simply and conveniently.

A novel organophosphorus composition and synthesis thereof, the composition being characterized by one phosphite moiety, one phosoxophite moiety, and a plurality of sterically bulky substituents. The novel composition finds utility as a ligand in Group VIII transition metal phosoxophite complex catalysts and complex catalyst precursors that are used in carbonylation processes, preferably, hydroformylation processes. Additionally, there is disclosed a novel method of preparing a phosphoromonochloridite composition that finds utility as a precursor to the novel phosoxophite composition.

Acetals are formed from a mixture comprising alcohols and aldehydes and the product is distilled to yield purified alcohols and / or acetals and / or unsaturated ethers.

This invention relates to an apparatus, comprising: at least one process microchannel having a height, width and length, the height being up to about 10 mm, the process microchannel having a base wall extending in one direction along the width of the process microchannel and in another direction along the length of the process microchannel; at least one fin projecting into the process microchannel from the base wall and extending along at least part of the length of the process microchannel; and a catalyst or sorption medium supported by the fin.

A continuous hydroformylation process for producing a mixture of aldehydes with improved flexibility and stability of a normal / branched (N / I) isomer ratio of the product aldehydes. The process involves reacting one or more olefinically-unsaturated compounds with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of an organopolyphosphite ligand and an organomonophosphite ligand, at least one of such ligands being bonded to a transition metal to form a transition metal-ligand complex hydroformylation catalyst; the process being conducted at a sub-stoichiometric molar ratio of organopolyphosphite ligand to transition metal, at a super-stoichiometric (>2 / 1) molar ratio of organomonophosphite ligand to transition metal, and at a carbon monoxide partial pressure in the inverse order region of the hydroformylation rate curve; and controlling and varying the isomer ratio by varying the concentration of organopolyphosphite ligand relative to transition metal.

A process of controlling heavies in a recycle catalyst stream, particularly, for use in a continuous hydroformylation process of converting an olefin with synthesis gas in the presence of a hydroformylation catalyst to form an aldehyde product stream with subsequent separation of the catalyst for recycle to the hydroformylation step. Heavies are controlled, and preferably reduced, by means of feeding a recycle gas stream, taken as a portion of an over-head stream from a condenser, back to a vaporizer wherein the aldehyde product stream is separated.

Diphosphine of formula IR1R2P—H2C—Ar—CH2PR1R2  (I)are prepared by a process that comprises a) reacting a dimethyl compound of formula IIH3C—Ar—CH3  (II)with a base and an N-substituted aminophosphorous halide to form bis(aminophosphinomethyl) compound of the formula IIIR3R4P—H2C—Ar—CH2—PR3R4  (III)b) reacting the compound of formula III with HCl to form bis(dichlorophosphinomethyl) compound of formula IVCl2P—H2C—Ar—CH2—PCl2  (IV)and c) reacting the compound of formula IV with an organometallic reagent to give the product compound of formula I, wherein groups R1 and R2 are each, independently of one another, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic, heteroaromatic or aliphatic hydrocarbon group and may have a covalent bond connecting them and Ar is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic or heteroaromatic hydrocarbon group an R3 and R4 are each, independently of one another, an N-substituted alkylamino or arylamino group.

An improved hydroformylation process involving reacting one or more reactants, such as an olefin, with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a hydroformylation catalyst, to produce a reaction product fluid comprising one or more products, preferably aldehydes; wherein said process is conducted in a region of the hydroformylation rate curve that is negative or inverse order in carbon monoxide, which is sufficient to prevent and / or lessen deactivation of the hydroformylation catalyst; and wherein total pressure is controlled at a predetermined target value and / or vent flow rate is controlled at a predetermined target value, by adjusting a flow of a carbon-monoxide containing inlet gas, so as to prevent and / or lessen cycling of process parameters, e.g., reaction rate, total pressure, vent flow rate, and / or temperature.

The invention discloses a supported metal catalyst under double modification of an anchoring ligand and an auxiliary and a preparation method and application thereof. The catalyst comprises an active component, an auxiliary, a carrier and a ligand, wherein the active component is one or more of metals Rh, Ru and Co; the auxiliary is one or more of Al, K, Zn, Cu and Ag; the carrier is a molecular sieve SiO2, Al2O3, MCM-41 or SBA-15; the ligand is an N or P-containing organic ligand capable of acting with silicon hydroxyl. In the catalyst, the metal component and the auxiliary are directly fixed on the carrier, and then the anchoring ligand and the metal generate a coordination action to in-situ generate an active species; due to the double modification of the ligand and the auxiliary, the activity and stability of the catalyst are remarkably improved. The catalyst can be applied to alkene hydroformylation to prepare various organic aldehydes, has relatively high catalytic activity and excellent stability, and is easy to separate.

A chemical processing microsystem useful for identifying and optimizing materials (e.g., catalysts) that enhance chemical processes or for characterizing and / or optimizing chemical processes is disclosed. The chemical processing microsystem comprises a plurality of microreactors 600 and, in a preferred embodiment, a plurality of microseparators 900 integral with the chemical processing microsystem 10. The microreactors 600 are preferably diffusion-mixed microreactors formed in a plurality of laminae that include a modular, interchangeable candidate-material array 100. The material array 100 comprises a plurality of different candidate materials (e.g., catalysts), preferably arranged at separate, individually addressable portions of a substrate (e.g., wafer). The microseparators 900 are similarly formed in a plurality of laminae that include a modular, interchangeable adsorbent array 700. The adsorbent array 700 comprises one or more adsorbents, preferably arranged at separate, individually addressable portions of a substrate to spatially correspond to the plurality of different candidate materials. Modular microfluidic distribution systems are also disclosed. The chemical processing microsystem can be integrated into a material evaluation system that enables a comprehensive combinatorial material science research program.

PCT No. PCT / EP97 / 06358 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 18, 1999 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 18, 1999 PCT Filed Nov. 14, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO98 / 22484 PCT Pub. Date May 28, 1998Diphosphines of a mixed heteroarylic-arylic type, wherein the phosphine group carrying backbone is constituted by the interconnection of a five-atom heteroaromatic ring and a carbocyclic aromatic ring, forming an atropoisomeric chiral system with a C1 symmetry. Said chiral diphosphines are advantageously used as ligands for the formation of chiral complexes with transition metals, in particular Ru, Rh, Pd, Ir, Ni. The so-obtained chiral complexes are used as chiral complexes are used as chiral catalysts for stereocontrolled reactions, in particular diastereo and enantioselective reduction reactions, hydroformylation reactions, hydrosilylation reactions, hydrocyanation reactions, double-bond isomerisation reactions, other reactions of carbon-carbon bond formation.

Phosphinines of formula (I) can be combined with metal salts to prepare hydroformylation catalysts. The phosphinine complexes have two phosphorus centers that may be substituted with a variety of hetero atoms or alkyl substituents to modify the ligand characteristics of the phosphinine. Phosphinine metal complexes are employed under normal hydroformylation reaction conditions. The preparatory routes to the phosphinine ligands of formula (I) allow for their convenient synthesis.