Alkaline hydrogen peroxide is used for epoxidation of electron-deficient alkenes such as acrylic acid derivatives, and for the oxidation of alkylboranes to alcohols, the second step of hydroboration-oxidation.
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Propylene produced by the cracker will be used to create 160, 000 tons of acrylic acid per year and 250, 000 tons of oxo alcohols, the company said.
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Vanadium is an important component of mixed metal oxide catalysts used in the oxidation of propane and propylene to acrolein, acrylic acid or the ammoxidation of propylene to acrylonitrile.
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Stockhausen said it plans to increase production at the plant to 150, 000 tons of acrylic acid a year by the year 2001 from this year's 90, 000 tons.
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To make hydrogels, two monomers with an extremely strong attraction to water, acrylic acid and acrylamide, are combined to form polyacrylamide, a spongelike substance, which is then mixed in soil.
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"' Polybutadiene acrylonitrile "'( "'PBAN "') copolymer, also noted as polybutadiene & mdash; acrylic acid & mdash; acrylonitrile terpolymer is a copolymer compound used most frequently as a rocket propellant.
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The business venture bodes well for BASF as worldwide demand for acrylic acid is growing at a rate of four per cent and the company is one of biggest producers in world.
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Strains of " Rhodococcus " are important owing to their ability to catabolize a wide range of compounds and produce bioactive steroids, acrylamide, and acrylic acid, and their involvement in fossil fuel biodesulfurization.
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Examples are the synthesis of acrylic acid from ethyl acrylate at 590 �C, the synthesis of 1, 4-pentadiene from 1, 5-pentanediol diacetate at 575 �C or the construction of a cyclobutene framework at 700 �C
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BASF Corp . is the North American arm of German chemical and plastics maker BASF AG . In June, the parent company said is was closing one of three acrylic acid plants at the Freeport site.