Chapter 13. Organoboron chemistry

Abstract

This Report is concerned with major advances in organoboron chemistry over the past five years. It is perhaps appropriate that in 1979 the importance of the field and the unparallelled contributions of H. C. Brown were recognized by the award of a Nobel Prize. H. C. Brown has himself recently reflected upon forty years of hydride reductions.'There have been many recent reviews covering individual aspects of organoboron chemistry, but we cite only one book2" and a review2' because together they contain key references to all areas of organoboron chemistry that are likely to be of interest to organic chemists.

Cyclohexane dehydrogenation for thermochemical energy conversion

“…The simplest expression which has been reported to reasonably correlate cyclohexane dehydrogenation data at 40 atm and 780 K (R. B. Smith, 1959) is given by Equation 1 is consistent with the dissociative adsorption mechanism proposed by Ritchie and Nixon (1968) if the desorption equilibrium constants are large and the dissociative adsorption step is rate controlling, in which event k is the velocity constant.…”

Optimization Approach for Continuous Catalytic Regenerative Reformer Processes

“…Although CCR plants have become increasingly important, most published works regarding modeling and optimization of the naphtha-reforming process address SR processes. − Some of the published models , consider the optimization of the naphtha-reforming process to find optimal operating conditions for a cost-objective function. Employing this objective function has the disadvantages that, (i) during the production year, the prices of reformate and fuel can fluctuate and the impact of their fluctuations are difficult to capture and (ii) the approach does not take into consideration the impact of process operating conditions on the environment.…”

Operability of an Industrial Catalytic Naphtha Reformer in the Presence of Catalyst Deactivation

“…While some models are detailed, they cannot be used for practical purposes due to the lack of kinetic and thermodynamic data. The model suggested by Smith [5] is probably the simplest, where naphtha reforming is considered as a combination of only four reactions. The model published by Bommannan et al [6] is a simple kinetic model similar to Smith's model [1], which considers catalyst deactivation.…”