Catalytic Conversions of Synthesis Gas and Alcohols to Chemicals

Abstract

Introductory Orientation -- Perspectives on the United States Feedstocks for the Production of Energy and Chemicals -- The Production of Synthesis Gas from Methane, Coal and Biomass -- Direct Conversion of Synthesis Gas to Chemicals -- Effects of Cobalt on Synthesis Gas Reactions over Copper-based Catalysts -- Thorium-Copper Intermetallic Catalysts for the Synthesis of Methanol -- Alcohol/Ester Fuels from Synthesis Gas -- Untangling the Water Gas Shift from Fischer-Tropsch: A Gordian Knot? -- Some Aspects of the Slurry Phase Fischer-Tropsch Process -- Metal-Zeolite Catalysts for the Conversion of Synthesis Gas to Selected Hydrocarbon Products -- Conversion of Synthesis Gas to Olefins over Physical Mixtures of High SiO2/Al2O3 ZSM-5 and Fe(K) -- Catalyst Support Effects on Selectivity in the Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis -- Reactions with Synthesis Gas to Form Chemicals -- The Use of Perfluoroalkanesulfonic Acids in the Palladium-Catalyzed Carbomethoxylation of Olefins -- Phosphine Modified Cobalt Carbonyl Catalysts for the Hydroformylation of Dicyclopentadiene -- Ethylene Glycol from Methanol and Synthesis Gas via Glycolic Acid -- Synthesis Gas to Formic Acid via Methanol Carbonylation -- Recent Advances in Alcohol Homologation: The Effect of Promoters -- Utilization of Alcohols to Produce Chemicals -- Polyethers and Organorhodiums: A Study of Oxidative Addition and Transfer Hydrogenation -- Synthesis of High Octane Ethers from Methanol and Iso-Olefins -- Conversion of Methanol to Low Molecular Weight Olefins with Heterogeneous Catalysts -- Catalytic Conversion of Alcohols to Olefins -- Conversion of Methanol to Hydrocarbons on Heteropoly Compounds -- Formaldehyde from Methanol -- Catalytic Conversions of Methanol to Chloromethanes -- Alkylation of N- and O-Heteroatom Compounds with Alcohols, with Special Reference to the Synthesis of Alkylamines -- Appendices -- 1. U.S. Energy Conversion Factors -- 2. Chemical Nomenclature.