Nitrated metalloporphyrins as catalysts for alkane oxidation

Patent · Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:868336

Lyons, James E ^[1]

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1. Wallingford, PA

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 replaced with one or more nitro groups. Hydrogen atoms in the porphyrin ring may also be substituted with halogen atoms.

• Research Organization: National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FC21-89MC26029
• Assignee: Sun Refining and Marketing Company (Philadelphia, PA)
• Patent Number(s): US 5120882
• OSTI ID: 868336
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

nitrated
metalloporphyrins
catalysts
alkane
oxidation
alkanes
oxidized
contact
oxygen-containing
gas
presence
catalyst
metalloporphyrin
hydrogen
atoms
porphyrin
replaced
nitro
substituted
halogen
alkane oxidation
hydrogen atoms
halogen atoms
oxygen-containing gas
containing gas
hydrogen atom
nitrated metalloporphyrins
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