Use of crystalline SUZ-9

A process for converting feedstock hydrocarbon compounds to product hydrocarbon compounds having a lower molecular weight than the feedstock hydrocarbon compounds which comprises contacting said feedstock at conversion conditions with a catalyst composition comprising an active form of crystalline material exhibiting a characteristic X-ray diffraction pattern including d-spacing maxima values as shown in Table I, said crystalline material having been synthesized by a method comprising (i) preparing a mixture capable of forming said material, said mixture comprising sources of alkali metal (M), an oxide of trivalent element (X), an oxide of tetravalent element (Y), water and triquat specification (R) having a formula C.sub.13 H.sub.39 N.sub.4.sup.+++ and represented as follows:

• ##STR4## and having a composition, in terms of mole ratios, within the following ranges:
• ______________________________________ YO.sub.2 /X.sub.2 O.sub.3 8 to 30 H.sub.2 O/YO.sub.2 8 to 22 OH.sup.- /YO.sub.2 0.4 to 1.1 M/YO.sub.2 0.2 to 1.3 R/YO.sub.2 0.03 to 1.2;
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• (ii) maintaining said mixture under sufficient conditions including a temperature of from about 110.degree. C. to about 150.degree. C. until crystals of said material are formed;
• and (iii) recovering said crystalline material from step (ii), said recovered crystalline material containing said R.

A process for cracking feedstock hydrocarbon compounds to product comprising gasoline and olefins of 3 to 4 carbon atoms which comprises contacting said feedstock at cracking conditions including a temperature of from about 400.degree. C. to about 650.degree. C. with a catalyst composition comprising an active form of crystalline material exhibiting a characteristic X-ray diffraction pattern including d-spacing maxima values as shown in Table I, said crystalline material having been synthesized by a method comprising (i) preparing a mixture capable of forming said material, said mixture comprising sources of alkali metal (M), an oxide of trivalent element (X), an oxide of tetravalent element (Y), water and triquat (R) having a formula C.sub.15 H.sub.39 N.sub.4.sup.+++ and represented as follows:

• ##STR5## and having a composition, in terms of mole ratios, within the following ranges:
• ______________________________________ YO.sub.2 /X.sub.2 O.sub.3 8 to 30 H.sub.2 O/YO.sub.2 8 to 22 OH.sup.- /YO.sub.2 0.4 to 1.1 M/YO.sub.2 0.2 to 1.3 R/YO.sub.2 0.03 to 1.2;
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• (ii) maintaining said mixture under sufficient conditions including a temperature of from about 110.degree. C. to about 150.degree. C. until crystals of said material are formed;
• and (iii) recovering said crystalline material from step (ii), said recovered crystalline material containing said R.

A process for separating at least one component from a mixture of components in the vapor or liquid phase having differential sorption characteristics with respect to a sorbent comprising a crystalline material exhibiting a characteristic X-ray diffraction pattern including d-spacing maxima values as shown in Table I, said crystalline material having been synthesized by a method comprising (i) preparing a mixture capable of forming said material, said mixture comprising sources of alkali metal (M), an oxide of trivalent element (X), an oxide of tetravalent element (Y), water and triquat (R) having a formula C.sub.15 H.sub.39 N.sup.+++ and represented as follows:

• ##STR6## and having a composition, in terms of mole ratios, within the following ranges:
• ______________________________________ YO.sub.2 /X.sub.2 O.sub.3 8 to 30 H.sub.2 O/YO.sub.2 8 to 22 OH.sup.- /YO.sub.2 0.4 to 1.1 M/YO.sub.2 0.2 to 1.3 R/YO.sub.2 0.03 to 1.2;
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• (ii) maintaining said mixture under sufficient conditions including a temperature of from about 110.degree. C. to about 150.degree. C. until crystals of said material are formed;
• and (iii) recovering said crystalline material from step (ii), said recovered crystalline material containing said R, said process comprising contacting the mixture containing said components with said sorbent to selectively sorb from the mixture and onto said sorbent at least one component of the mixture, so as to effect a selective separation of the at least one sorbed component from the remaining at least one unsorbed component of the mixture.