SE333. INDUSTRIAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 
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  1. Various aspects of the energy and raw material supply: Coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, and biomass as energy sources.
  2. Basic products of industrial synthesis: synthesis gas, methanol, formaldehyde, halogen derivatives of methane, chlorofluorohydrocarbons.
  3. Olefins: Historical perspective, cracking of hydrocarbons, ethylene, butanes, higher olefins, unbranched higher olefins and their use in metathesis reactions.
  4. Acetylene: Significance and manufacturing process for acetylene, manufacture through calcium carbide, thermal process, applications of acetylene.
  5. 1, 3-Diolefins: 1, 3-Butadiene, industrial manufacture from cracking, dehydrogenation, applications of butadiene.
  6. Synthesis using carbon monoxide: Hydroformylation, industrial operations, utilization of oxo products, carbonylation of olefins.
  7. Oxidation products of ethylene: Ethylene oxide, process operation, ethylene glycol, ethylene glycol ethers, acetaldeyde, acetic acid, acetic anhydride
  8. Alcohols: Ethanol, propanol, butanols, amyl alcohols, aldol synthesis, polyhydric alcohols, neopentyl glycol
  9. Vinyl-halogen and -oxygen compounds: Vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, vinylacetate, vinyl ethers.
  10. Polyamides: Adipic acid, hexamethylenediamine, adiponitrile, lactams.
  11. Propene conversion products: Propylene oxide, acetone, acrolein, allylchloride, acrylonitrile.
  12. Aromatics: Source of feedstocks, coking of hard coal, isolation, special separation techniques, condensed aromatics, naphthalene, anthracene, hydrodealkylation.
  13. Benzene derivatives: Styrene, cumene, cyclohexane, phenol, maleic anhydride, nitrobenzene, aniline, diisocyanates.
  14. Oxidation products of xylene and naphthalene: Phthalic anhydride, esters of phthalic acid and derivatives, terephthalic acid.

Recommended Text:

Industrial Organic Chemistry: K. Weissermel, H. -J. Arpe
Concerned Department:Chemistry

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