A highly active hydroprocessing catalyst that comprises a doped support having been impregnated with a metal-impregnation solution, comprising a complexing agent and a hydrogenation metal, and filled with an organic additive blend. The catalyst is made by providing a doped support particle followed by impregnating the doped support particle with a metal impregnation solution that contains both a hydrogenation metal component and a complexing agent component to provide a metal-impregnated doped support particle. The metal-impregnated doped support particle is dried, but not calcined, and impregnated with an organic additive blend component.

A 3D structure of the graphite-titanium-nanocomposite complex and a method of preparing the graphite-titanium-nanocomposite complex are disclosed. The Graphite-titanium-nanocomposite complex includes a metal core associated with the two phases, amine functionalized graphite, and amine functionalized titanium. The method of preparation includes amine functionalizing of graphite and titanium with coupling agents to produce amine functionalized titanium and graphite, further mixing with a metal ion solution for synthesizing an ion complex. Trisodium citrate solution and sodium borohydride solution is added to the ion complex to prepare a 3D structure of the graphite-titanium-nanocomposite complex, employed as a catalyst.

A highly active hydroprocessing catalyst that comprises a doped support impregnated with at lease one hydrogenation metal component and filled with an organic additive blend. The catalyst is made by providing a doped support particle followed by impregnating the doped support particle with a metal impregnation solution to provide a metal-impregnated doped support particle. The metal-impregnated doped support particle is dried but not calcined and impregnated with an organic additive blend component.

Polyether (meth)acrylates based on cyanuric acid or substituted cyanuric acid and multifunctional alcohol, which optionally include triethanolamine units, have wide applications in UV curable adhesives, coatings, inks, sealants, paints or 3D printing. These polyether acrylates have rigid cyanurate structure endowing the material with extra strength and thermal stability. Furthermore, triethanolamine unit, when present, endows the material with anti-oxygen inhibition property in UV curing process. These polyether (meth)acrylates have low viscosity and high reactivity towards UV curing. The cured resins have high resilience and strength. The process of making the polyether (meth)acrylates includes the synthesis of trifunctional polyether polyols through controlled polymerization of propylene oxide using multifunctional alcohol (such as glycerol and sucrose), cyanuric acid or substituted cyanuric acid, and optionally triethanolamine, in the presence of a catalyst, followed by the synthesis of polyether (meth)acrylates through transesterification or through direct esterification of the trifunctional polyether polyols.

An embodiment of the present invention relates to an aqueous solvent solution for absorbing carbon dioxide, and a process using an aqueous solvent solution for absorbing carbon dioxide. The aqueous solvent solution having a catalytic compound dissolved in the water that is an alkali salt of an N-substituted amino acid and at least one base that is dissolved in water. The catalytic compound assisting in forming a bicarbonate.

An improved process is described for preparing foundry shapes by a cold box process, for making cores and moulds and for casting metals, carrying out as a curing catalyst system a blend comprising at least two tertiary amines.

This invention relates to a process for the preparation of glycerol carbonate from the reaction of glycerol and a dialkylcarbonate, for example dimethyl carbonate, or a cyclic alkylene carbonate. More specifically, the invention relates to a process where the synthesis of glycerol carbonate is conducted in the presence of a homogeneous transesterification catalyst and involves the partial reaction of a glycerol reactant stream and a dialkyl carbonate or cyclic alkylene carbonate reactant stream and an intermediate step of alcohol by-product separation before further reaction in order to improve glycerol conversion and glycerol carbonate selectivity and yield.

The invention describes phospho-amino pincer-type ligands, metal complexes thereof, and catalytic methods comprising such metal complexes for conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol, conversion of aldehydes into alcohols, conversion of aldehydes in the presence of a trifluoromethylation agent into trifluorinated secondary alcohols, cycloaddition of carbon dioxide to an epoxide to provide cyclic carbonates or preparation of an amide from the combination of an alcohol and an amine.

The present invention relates to a two-stage hydroformylation process for producing pound of the formula (I) and to a process for producing a compound of the formula (V) comprising the two-stage hydroformylation process for producing a compound of the formula (I) followed by hydrogenation of the compound of the formula (I). ##STR00001##

A process for producing methanol includes combining a hydrogenation catalyst, hydrogen, and CO.sub.2 with a condensed phase solution comprising an amine under conditions effective to form methanol and water. A process for coproduction of methanol and a glycol includes combining an epoxide, a hydrogenation catalyst, hydrogen, and CO.sub.2 with a condensed phase solution comprising an amine under conditions effective to form methanol and a glycol.