Tank liquid ammonia (Ohio Chemical and Manufacturing Company) was distilled from sodium shavings into a tube of about 120 cc. volume. This was equipped with a thermocouple well, inlet and outlet side arms protected with calcium chloride and phosphorus pentoxide drying towers, and a standard taper cap containing a mercury seal stirrer. A current of dry nitrogen could be passed through the tube, ...

This paper considers the problem of selecting the most appropriate ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM), which is a polyolefin with a variety of usages in different areas. The metallocene catalyst, bis(2-phenyl indenyl) zirconium dichloride ((2-PhInd)2ZrCl2) was synthesized by a modified method and applied to the terpolymerization of ethylene, propylene, and 5-ethylidiene-2-norbornene (ENB)....

The reduction of titanocene dichloride with dysprosium yields a new titanocene(ii) equivalent without the need for further stabilising ligands. This reagent can be employed in combination with dithioacetals for the olefination of different carbonyl groups and allows for a simplified all-in-one procedure.

Zirconocene dichloride (Cp(2)ZrCl(2)) has been shown to be an effective catalyst for the transamidation of primary amides with amines in cyclohexane at 80 °C in 5-24 hours. For favourable substrates, the reaction can be performed at temperatures as low as 30 °C.

Titanocene and zirconocene ketene acetal derivatives have been prepared by reaction of the respective metallocene dichloride with the lithium enolate of isobutyric acid methyl ester. The crystal structure of (CsH s),Ti(CDOC(OCH 3):C(CH 3) is reported.

Vilsmeier reagent formed from phthaloyl dichloride and DMF was found to be very effective for converting 2-hydroxyacetophenones, deoxybenzoins and dihydrochalcones into corresponding chromones, isoflavones and homoisoflavones with excellent yield. This method offers significant advantages such as efficiency and mild reaction conditions with shorter reaction time.

Men assigned to the chlorohydrin unit of Union Carbide's South Charleston plant in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia were followed up for mortality from 1940 to the end of 1988. This 10 year update was conducted to verify previous findings of excesses of cancer among the 278 men assigned to the chlorohydrin unit, which primarily produced ethylene chlorohydrin from 1925 to 1957. This process p...

We describe the synthesis of [bis(N-(3-tert-butylsalicylidene)anilinato)] titanium (IV) dichloride (Ti-FI complex) and examine the effects of comonomer (feed concentration and type) on its catalytic performance and properties of the resulting polymers. Ethylene/1-hexene and ethylene/1-octene copolymers were prepared through copolymerization using Ti-FI catalyst, activated by MAO cocatalyst at 3...