The method of the present invention for converting a nitrile functional group into a hydroxamic acid functional group can be easily performed at room temperature and under normal pressure by using a peroxocobalt complex. The final hydroxamic acid functional group produced through the intermediate Hydroximatocobalt (III) compound or the derivative comprising the same has been known to be able to inhibit the growth of cancer cells, so that the conversion method of the present invention can be applied to the preparation of a pro-drug for anticancer treatment.

The present invention relates to a selective reduction of esters to their corresponding alcohols.

The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a deuterated ethanol from an acetic acid, an acetate, or an amide by reaction with D.sub.2 in the presence of a transition metal catalyst.

Disclosed is a process for the purification of a mixed diol stream. The mixed diol stream comprising two-, three-, and four-carbon diols is separated into component diols by extraction with a hydrophobic solvent mixture. The diols recovered in the extractant may be removed from the extractant stream by back extraction with water or by distillation with an azeotrope-forming agent present, preferably an azeotroping agent already present in the extractant mixture.

The present invention relates to methods for improving carbon capture using entrained catalytic-particles within an amine solvent. The particles are functionalized and appended with a CO.sub.2 hydration catalyst to enhance the kinetics of CO.sub.2 hydration and improve overall mass transfer of CO.sub.2 from an acid gas.

The present invention relates to a selective reduction of esters to their corresponding alcohols.

Iron-based homogeneous catalysts, supported by pincer ligands, are employed in the transfer hydrogenation of esters using C.sub.2-C.sub.12 alcohols as sacrificial hydrogen donors to produce corresponding alcohols from the esters. No external H.sub.2 pressure is required. The reaction can be carried out under ambient pressure.

Disclosed are novel bridged bi-aromatic phenol ligands and transition metal catalyst compounds derived therefrom. Also disclosed are methods of making the ligands and transition metal compounds, and polymerization processes utilizing the transition metal compounds for the production of olefin polymers.

The disclosure provides a catalyst system and a method for ethylene oligomerization using this. The catalyst system contains: ligand a, containing carbene groups of imidazole ring type; transition metal compound b, that is one of IVBVIII group metal compounds; activator c, that is a compound containing III A group metals; the ligand a contains at least one group as shown in general formula I:

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in which, bridging group A contains a main chain including alkyl, alkenyl, aryl groups or the combination of them and the first heteratom; E is a linear or cyclic group containing the second heteroatom; R is a hydrocarbyl group. The catalyst system is especially used for trimerization and tetramerization of ethylene. The catalyst system has high selectivity for 1-hexene and 1-octene, low selectivity for 1-butene and I-C.sub.10+, and the total percent content of C.sub.6C.sub.8 linear -olefin in the product is more than 90% by mass.

The method of the present invention for converting a nitrile functional group into a hydroxamic acid functional group can be easily performed at room temperature and under normal pressure by using a peroxocobalt complex. The final hydroxamic acid functional group produced through the intermediate Hydroximatocobalt (III) compound or the derivative comprising the same has been known to be able to inhibit the growth of cancer cells, so that the conversion method of the present invention can be applied to the preparation of a pro-drug for anticancer treatment.