Additives for improving the research octane number of liquid hydrocarbon fuels
AssigneeMobil Oil Corporation
InventorsMilton Braid, Phillip S. Landis
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Abstract
Transition metal complexes of thiobis(alkylphenols) provide an increase in the research octane number of fuels suitable for use in internal combustion engines.
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A method of increasing the octane research number of liquid hydrocarbon fuels, selected from hydrocarbon fractions having an initial boiling point of at least about 75.degree. F., and boiling substantially continuously throughout their distillation range, suitable for use in internal combustion engines comprising intimately admixing with said hydrocarbon base fuel an organosulfur-containing metal compound selected from a minor effective amount of a cobalt thiobis (C.sub.1 -C.sub.30 alkylphenate having the following general structure ##STR5## where R is an alkyl group of from about 4 to 16 carbon atoms, m is 3 and n is 2.
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