Resid hydroprocessing method

A hydrotreating process for coverting a hydrocarbonaceous feedback to lighter products comprising hydrotreating a reaction mixture containing the feedback and a feedstock-soluble catalyst under hydrotreating conditions, said catalyst comprising a 2,4-heteroatom substituted-molybdena-3,3-dioxacylopentane-containing, triglyceride-derived compound prepared by the process of:

• (a) epoxidizing triglycerides to form a mixture in which epoxide groups have been introduced into fatty acid chains of the triglyceride;
• (b) reacting expoxidized fatty acid chains from step (a) into diol or thiol-alcohol groups;
• and
• (c) reacting diol or thiol-alcohol containing-chains from step (b) with molybdenum to produce chains containing a 2,4-heteroatom substituted-molybdena-3,3-dioxacyclopentane ring structures.

A hydrotreating process for converting a hydrocarbonaceous feedback to lighter products comprising hydrotreating a reaction mixture containing the feedstock and an feedstock-soluble catalyst under hydrotreating conditions, said catalyst comprising a 2,4-heteroatom substituted-molybdena-3,3-dioxacyclopentane-containing, fatty acid derived compound prepared by the process of:

• (a) epoxidizing fatty acid chains to introduce epoxide groups into the chains;
• (b) converting epoxidized fatty acid chains from step (a) into diol or thiol-alcohol containing chains;
• and
• (c) reacting the diol or thiol-alcohol containing-chains with molybdenum to produce chains containing 2,4-heteroatom substituted-molybdena-3,3-dioxacyclopentane ring structures.

A hydrotreating process for converting a resid feedstock to lighter products comprising hydrotreating a reaction mixture containing the feedstock and between about 20 and 1000 parts per million of a feedstock molybdenum metal under hydrotreating conditions, said catalyst selected from the group consisting of;

• (i) 2,4-heteroatom substituted-molybdena-3,3-dioxacyclopentane-containing, fatty acid-derived compounds prepared by the process of:
• (a) epoxidizing fatty acid chains to introduce epoxide groups into the chains;
• (b) converting epoxidized fatty acid chains from step (a) into diol or thiol-alcohol containing chains;
• and
• (c) reacting the diol or thiol-alcohol containing-chains with
• molybdenum to produce chains containing 2,4-heteroatom substituted-molybdena-3,3-dioxacyclopentane ring structures;
• (ii) 2,4-heteroatom substituted-molybdena-3,3-dioxacyclopentane-containing, triglyceride-derived compound prepared by the process of:
• (a) epoxidizing triglycerides to form a mixture in which epoxide groups have been introduced into fatty acid chains of the triglyceride;
• (b) reacting epoxidized fatty acid chains from step (a) into diol or thiol-alcohol groups;
• and
• (c) reacting diol or thiol-alcohol containing-chains from step (b) with molybdenum to produce chains containing 2,4-heteroatom substituted-molybdena-3,3-dioxacyclopentane ring structures;
• and
• a composition have the structure:
• ##STR8## where X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 are selected from the group consisting of O, S or NH and wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen or an alkyl, aryl or alkyl/aryl hydrocarbon group containing from 1 to 40 carbon atoms or variants thereof in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been substituted for by one or more oxygen-, sulfur- or nitrogen-containing functional groups.