The control on product distributions in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis by feeding olefins in the n-paraffin solvent over a 20 wt.% Co/SiO2 catalyst under the typical reaction conditions of 503K, 2.1MPa, H2/CO = 2, and co-fed olefins 16 mol% in CO base in a trickle bed reactor has been studied. The selected co-fed olefins include 1-octene, 2-octene and 1-dodecene. Results showed that the addition of ...

The use of noble metal catalysts in homogeneous catalysis has been well established. Due to their price and limited availability, there is growing interest in the substitution of such precious metal complexes with readily available and bio-relevant catalysts. In particular, iron is a "rising star" in catalysis. Herein, we present a general and selective iron-catalyzed monoisomerization of olefi...

Abstract In heterogeneous catalysis, olefin oligomerization is typically performed on immobilized transition metal ions, such as Ni 2+ and Cr 3+ . Here we report that silica-supported, single site catalysts containing immobilized, main group Zn Ga ion sites catalyze ethylene propylene to an equilibrium distribution of linear olefins with rates similar The molecular weight products formed , whil...

The oxidative cracking of n-decane was investigated at millisecond contact times over platinum alumina washcoated monoliths a fuel-air equivalent ratio (Φ) 5. High valuable linear α-olefins were so produced through an autothermal way concomitantly with oxygenated compounds, CO, CO2, H2 and H2O. A fine identification reaction products coupled the study thermal phenomena occurring both active dea...

A series of salen-type zirconium complexes of the general formula LZrCl2 (L = N,N 0-ethylenebis(salicylideneiminate), 3a; N, N 0-ethylenebis(3,5-di-tert-butylsalicylideneiminate), 3b; N,N 0-ethylenebis(5-methoxysalicylideneiminate), 3c; N,N 0-ethylenebis(5chlorosalicylideneiminate), 3d; N,N 0-ethylenebis(5-nitrosalicylideneiminate), 3e; N,N 0-o-phenylenebis(salicylideneiminate), 4a; N,N 0-o-phe...

The mechanism of catalytic hydroarylation of olefins by the homogeneous Ru(Tp)(CO)(Ph)(NCCH3) catalyst recently reported by Gunnoe et al. is characterized using quantum mechanics (density functional theory). The catalytic cycle features two key steps, 1,2-olefin insertion and C-H activation via an unusual mechanism, oxidative hydrogen migration. We find that these two key steps are competitive ...

Introduction Middle 1950s may be treated as the beginning of the age of plastics – their global production in last 60 years have increased from approx. 1.5 mln to almost 290 mln tons. The dominating position in production and consumption of these materials for many years has been occupied by polyolefins (in Europe 48% from 57 mln tons of plastics) [1]. Forecasters predict that in coming years t...