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US 2014/0275684 A1Published application
Hydrocarbon transformations using carbocatalysts
AssigneeGraphea, Inc.
InventorsChristopher W. Bielawski, Daniel R. Dreyer, Richard Miller
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to catalytically active carbocatalysts, e.g., a graphene oxide or graphite oxide catalyst suitable for use in a variety of high value chemical transformations.
Claims55
A process for converting
- (a) an alkane starting material to an alkene product (dehydrogenation);
- (b) an alkane starting material to one or more higher molecular weight alkane products (coupling);
- (c) an alkane starting material to one or more metathesis products (metathesis);
- (d) a higher alkane starting material to one or more lower alkane products (cracking);
- (e) a cycloalkane starting material to an alkane product or an alkene product or a combination thereof (cracking);
- or any combination thereof;
- comprising contacting any starting material in (a)-(e) with a catalytically active surface-modified graphene oxide or graphite oxide to provide the corresponding product in (a)-(e).
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A process for converting
- (a) a saturated hydrocarbon moiety on a hydrocarbon starting material to an unsaturated hydrocarbon moiety on a hydrocarbon product (dehydrogenation);
- (b) a hydrocarbon starting material to one or more higher molecular weight hydrocarbon products (coupling);
- (c) a hydrocarbon starting material to one or more metathesis products (metathesis);
- (d) a higher hydrocarbon starting material to one or more lower hydrocarbon products (cracking);
- or any combination thereof;
- comprising contacting any starting material in (a)-(d) with a catalytically active carbocatalyst to provide the corresponding product in (a)-(d).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.