Ciapetta

Sidney M. Cantor Frank G. Ciapetta William von Fischer Edward L. Haenisch Edwin J. Hart Stanley Kirschner John L. Lundberg Harry S. Mosher Edward E. Smissman... 

Ciapetta and Kilpatrick (14) have used a dilato-metric technique to investigate the kinetics of the hydration of isobutene in perchloric acid solution at 25 CC. 

Hettinger, W. P., Jr., "Dr. Frank Ciapetta - Pioneer in Catalytic Chemistry", ACS Symposium, March, 1982. 

Ciapetta, F. G., presented before Gordon Research Conference, Colby Junior College, New... 

Frank G. Ciapetta Gunther Eichhorn Frederick M. Fowkes F. Leo Kauffman Stanley Kirschner John L. Lundberg Fred W. McLafferty William E. Parham Jack Weiner... 

Early reported studies on the application of bifunctional catalysts to the foregoing reactions were those of Haensel and Donaldson (H2), Ciapetta and Hunter (C2, C4, C5), Heinemann and co-workers (H3), and Hettinger and co-workers (H7). These reactions form the heart of catalytic reforming and have been exploited commercially in a number of processes, including the following ... 

These processes have been described extensively in a comprehensive article by Ciapetta et al. (C6), to which the reader is referred for details. Here we will simply point out that the processes are all fixed bed processes using platinum catalysts and operate at relatively high pressures (15-35 atm.) with recycle of hydrogen-rich gases. 

Indications of the mechanism of isomerization of saturated hydrocarbons were obtained by Ciapetta (C3), who observed that olefins were isomerized over nickel-silica-alumina catalyst at appreciably lower temperatures than were the corresponding saturated hydrocarbons, suggesting that olefins were intermediates in the reaction. Ciapetta also suggested that the rearrangement of the carbon skeleton took place via a carbonium... 

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