A process for producing renewable distillate-range hydrocarbons is provided. The process includes dehydrating a renewable C2-C6 alcohol feedstock to produce an olefin, oligomerizing the olefin the presence of a halometallate ionic liquid catalyst to produce an oligomer product and hydrogenating the oligomer product or fractions thereof to produce saturated distillate-range hydrocarbons.

The present invention discloses a process for preparing perhydrofluorene or alkyl-substituted perhydrofluorene, comprising the steps of: (1) reacting a phenolic compound or an aromatic hydrocarbon compound or an aromatic ketone compound or an aromatic ether compound with a benzyl compound to carry out an alkylation reaction in the presence of a first catalyst, thereby to produce substituted or unsubstituted diphenyl methane, wherein the first catalyst is an acidic catalyst; and (2) reacting the substituted or unsubstituted diphenyl methane with hydrogen gas to carry out an hydrogenation reaction or a hydrodeoxygenation reaction, thereby to produce perhydrofluorene or alkyl-substituted perhydrofluorene, wherein the second catalyst is a physical mixture of a metal catalyst and an acidic catalyst or a metal catalyst loaded on an acidic catalyst.

The present disclosure provides methods to produce para-xylene, toluene, and other compounds from renewable sources (e.g., cellulose, hemicellulose, starch, sugar) and ethylene in the presence of a catalyst. For example, cellulose and/or hemicellulose may be converted into 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF), which may be converted into para-xylene by cycloaddition of ethylene to DMF. Para-xylene can then be oxidized to form terephthalic acid.

A process for producing renewable distillate-range hydrocarbons is provided. The process includes dehydrating a renewable C2-C6 alcohol feedstock to produce an olefin, oligomerizing the olefin the presence of a halometallate ionic liquid catalyst to produce an oligomer product and hydrogenating the oligomer product or fractions thereof to produce saturated distillate-range hydrocarbons.

A process of tuning a hydrocarbon product composition is described. The process involves selecting paraffins for reaction. The equilibrium constants for reactions of the selected paraffins can be used to select appropriate feed ratios, or an equilibrium composition as function of C/H molar ratio. A selected feed is reacted to obtain the product. Equilibrium product compositions and non-equilibrium product compositions can be obtained using the process.

Described herein are methods of oxidative coupling of aryl boron reagents with sp.sup.3-carbon nucleophiles, and ambient decarboxylative arylation of malonate half-esters via oxidative catalysis.

The present disclosure provides methods to produce para-xylene, toluene, and other compounds from renewable sources (e.g., cellulose, hemicellulose) and ethylene in the presence of an acid, such as a Lewis acid. For example, cellulose and/or hemicellulose may be converted into 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF) and 2-methylfuran, which may be converted into para-xylene and toluene, respectively. In particular, para-xylene can then be oxidized to form terephthalic acid.

The present invention relates to a process for efficiently synthesizing highly optically active 1,3-disubstituted allenes, i.e., a one-step process for preparing highly optically active 1,3-disubstituted allenes by using a functionalized terminal alkyne, an aldehyde and a chiral ,-diphenyl prolinol as reactants under the catalysis of a divalent copper salt. The operation of the process is simple, and the raw materials and reagents are readily available. The process has a broad-spectrum of substrates and a good compatibility for a wide variety of functional groups such as glycosidic units, primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, tertiary alcohols, amides, malonates, etc., and does not require the protection for the functional groups. The obtained axially chiral allene has a moderate to high yield and a good diastereoselectivity or enantioselectivity.

A method of implementing organic synthesis reactions uses a composition containing a metal catalyst originating from a calcined plant. The plants can be from the Brassicaceae, Sapotaceae and Convolvulaceae family, and the metal catalyst contains metal in the M(II) form such as zinc, nickel, manganese, lead, cadmium, calcium, magnesium or copper. Examples of the organic synthesis reactions include halogenations, electrophilic reactions, cycloadditions, transesterification reactions and coupling reactions, among others.

A sacubitril intermediate, a preparation method therefor, and use thereof. A key intermediate N-Boc amino alcohol represented by formula (10) or formula (10-a) can be efficiently prepared. The intermediate can be used to prepare a neutral endopeptidase (NEP) inhibitor or a prodrug thereof, particularly a NEP inhibitor comprising a skeleton of -amino--biphenyl--methylalkanoic acid or ester, such as sacubitril. Also provided are intermediates for preparing formula (10) or formula (10-a). Raw materials of the process route are cheap, the operation is simple and convenient, the production cost is low, and the method is suitable for industrial production

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