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Cyano- and polycyanometalloporphyrins as catalysts for alkane oxidation

Patent ·
OSTI ID:868325
Alkanes are oxidized by contact with oxygen-containing gas in the presence as catalyst of a metalloporphyrin in which hydrogen atoms in the porphyrin ring have been substituted with one or more cyano groups. Hydrogen atoms in the porphyrin ring may also be substituted with halogen atoms.
Research Organization:
National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA, and Morgantown, WV
Assignee:
Sun Refining and Marketing Company (Philadelphia, PA)
Patent Number(s):
US 5118886
OSTI ID:
868325
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English