An organic acid system with high temperature resistance, including: 80-90% by weight of a solid organic acid anhydride, 3-10% by weight of a hydrolysis catalyst, and 5-10% by weight of a stabilizer. A preparation method and an application of the organic acid system are also provided herein.

Phosphine phosphonate and phenoxyphosphine ligands bearing polyethylene glycol (PEG) chains are used as described herein to produce heterobimetallic catalysts. The ligands can be metallated selectively with palladium or nickel and secondary metal ions to provide well-defined heterobimetallic compounds. These heterobimetallic complexes exhibit accelerated reaction rates and greater thermal stability in olefin polymerization compared to other catalysts.

Method of making a second olefm using a first olefin, comprising steps (A) and (B): (A) performing a metathesis reaction with the first olefm in the presence of a metal complex configured to catalyse said metathesis reaction; (B) epoxidizing an olefin contained in the reaction mixture obtained in step (A) to form an epoxide; and deoxygenizing said epoxide to form said second olefin.

Disclosed are a liquid hydrogenated nitrile-butadiene rubber, a preparation method therefor and the use thereof. In the liquid hydrogenated nitrile-butadiene rubber: the content of acrylonitrile is 15-50%; the hydrogenation saturation is 75-99.5%; the weight-average molecular weight (Mw) is 3,000-60,000; the molecular weight polydispersity index (PDI) is 2.0-8.0; and the glass transition temperature (Tg) is lower than −28° C. The liquid hydrogenated nitrile-butadiene rubber is low in molecular weight and wide in molecular weight polydispersity, simultaneously has an excellent fluidity during processing and excellent mechanical properties after curing and has a unique application value in the field of special rubbers; and the preparation method therefor is simple and feasible in terms of the process.

The invention is directed to a process to continuously react a gaseous mixture of an epoxide compound and carbon dioxide in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst at a pressure of between 0.1 and 0.4 MPa in one or more reactors to a liquid cyclic carbonate product and a gaseous effluent stream comprising unreacted epoxide compound and carbon dioxide. Part of the gaseous effluent is purged from the process and another part of the gaseous effluent is fed to an ejector where the gaseous effluent mixes with gaseous mixture of epoxide compound and carbon dioxide having a pressure which is at least more than 0.3 MPa higher than the pressure of the gaseous effluent. The obtained ejector effluent is fed to the one or more reactors.

This invention relates to novel hydrogenation catalyst compositions obtainable from reacting metal-based complex hydrogenation catalysts with specific co-catalysts and to a process for selectively hydrogenating nitrile rubbers in the presence of such novel hydrogenation catalyst compositions.

A new heterogeneous catalyst for various organic oxidation processes and a method of making the same by a successful immobilization of a copper (II) bis-Schiff base hydrazone complex on the surface of a composite ZnO—TiO.sub.2 to afford as active catalyst CuL.sub.2Cl.sub.2@ZnO—TiO.sub.2. This novel catalyst can be used to selectively oxidize benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde.

Embodiments in accordance with the present invention encompass compositions encompassing a latent organo-ruthenium compound, a photosensitizer and one or more monomers which undergo ring open metathesis polymerization (ROMP) when said composition is exposed to suitable actinic radiation to form a substantially transparent film or a three dimensional object. Surprisingly, the compositions are very stable at ambient conditions to temperatures up to 80° C. for several weeks and undergo mass polymerization only when subjected to actinic radiation under inert atmosphere such as for example a blanket of nitrogen. Accordingly, compositions of this invention are useful in various opto-electronic applications, including as 3D printing materials, coatings, encapsulants, fillers, leveling agents, among others.

Disclosed herein is a method for selectively reducing, using electrical energy, CO.sub.2 to carbon monoxide, a catalyst for use in the method, and an electrochemical reduction system. The method for producing carbon monoxide by electrochemically reducing carbon dioxide of the present invention includes (a) reacting carbon dioxide with a metal complex represented by formula (1), and (b) applying a voltage to a reaction product of the carbon dioxide and the metal complex represented by formula (1):

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Phosphine phosphonate and phenoxyphosphine ligands bearing polyethylene glycol (PEG) chains are used as described herein to produce heterobimetallic catalysts. The ligands can be metallated selectively with palladium or nickel and secondary metal ions to provide well-defined heterobimetallic compounds. These heterobimetallic complexes exhibit accelerated reaction rates and greater thermal stability in olefin polymerization compared to other catalysts.