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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4466870 | Organic sonochemistry process The method of causing or promoting chemical changes involving the step of subjecting reactants to ultrasonic energy as a key treatment step, including methods of: (1) reducing aryl halides by treating a mixture of aryl halide and lithium aluminum hydride ... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4451343 | Photo-initiators for decarboxylation reactions A process is provided for the selective photochemical decarboxylation of alpha-hydroxy carboxylic acids to the corresponding alcohols. The process is enhanced with the use of photo-initiator compounds.... | 05/29/1984 |
| 4450059 | Photochemical decarboxylation of a metal salt of an alpha-hydroxy carboxylic acid A process is provided for the photochemical decarboxylation of a metal salt of an alpha-hydroxy carboxylic acid to form the corresponding alcohol wherein the alpha-hydroxy carboxylic acid metal salt is exposed to light in the absence of a photosensitizing... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4381980 | Process for the manufacture of sulfobetaines The invention relates to a process for the manufacture of N-substituted 3-sulfopropylammonium betaines. N-substituted allylammonium compounds are reacted in the presence of initiators, such as oxygen, and catalytic acting transition metallic ions of the f... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4332654 | Photoactivated catalytic hydrosilylation of carbonyl compounds A process to form silyl ethers by contacting a carbonyl compound with an organosilicon hydride under reaction conditions in the presence of a catalyst, said catalyst being formed from a transition metal carbonyl coordination compound precursor by irradiat... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4325793 | Catalysis of photochemical production of hydrogen from water The invention is a catalytic process for splitting water to provide hydrogen by irradiating an aqueous solution with actinic light. The solution contains a catalyst comprising a complex compound of a metal of the Group Ib, IIb, IVb, Vb, VIb, VIIb and VIII... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4287036 | Method for producing a reduction product using a photo-regenerated transition metal catalyst A catalytic method of reducing chemical compounds in solution utilizing a transition metal alcoholate complex as the reducing agent is disclosed. More particularly, this active reducing complex is produced and regenerated from its oxidized inactive state ... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4173521 | Photosensitive redox solutions The invention provides aqueous solutions of (1) the reaction product of anhydrous trimethyl borate with titanium tetrachloride and (2) polyvinyl alcohol, preferably not exceeding about 0.5 weight percent of each. These solutions have a pH of about 1 but w... | 11/06/1979 |
| 4152230 | Photooxidation process A photochemically initiated oxidation process for organic materials using only catalytic quantities of the photochemical agent by conducting the reaction in the presence of a compound of a variable valency metal (especially copper) in order to trap the ph... | 05/01/1979 |
| 4032503 | Process for the manufacturing of styrene derivatives, new styrene derivatives and their use as optical brighteners Process for the manufacture of styrene compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein A denotes one of the ring systems ##STR2## and wherein R1 denotes hydrogen, alkyl with 1 to 8 carbon atoms, cyclohexyl, phenylalkyl with 1 to 3 carbon at... | 06/28/1977 |
