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AssigneeBP Chemicals Limited
InventorsJean-Marie Basset, Christophe Coperet, Laurent Lefort, Barry Martin Maunders, Olivier Maury, Guillaume Saggio, Jean Thivolle-Cazat
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A process for the manufacture of alkanes comprising a cross-metathesis reaction between at least one starting alkane (A) and one organometallic compound (B) fixed to an inorganic support and comprising a metal bonded to at least one hydrocarbon-comprising radical. The reaction leads to the formation of at least one other alkane (C) which is a higher or lower homologue of the starting alkane (A), by cleavage of the hydrocarbon-comprising radical with the metal of the organometallic compound (B) and recombination of the radical with at least one other radical originating from a cleavage of the starting alkane (A). The metal of the compound (B) preferably is selected from transition metals, lanthanides and actinides, and the hydrocarbon-comprising radical of the compound (B) preferably is selected from alkyl, alkylidene and alkylidyne radicals.
A process for the manufacture of alkanes comprising reacting, as a main stage and by a cross-metathesis reaction, at least one starting alkane (A) with an organometallic compound (B) fixed to an inorganic support and having a metal bonded to at least one hydrocarbon-comprising radical, which reaction results in the formation of at least one other alkane (C), which is a higher or lower homologue of the starting alkane (A), by cleavage of the hydrocarbon-comprising radical with the metal of the organometallic compound (B) and recombination of said hydrocarbon-comprising radical with at least one other radical originating from a cleavage of the starting alkane (A).
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