Deacon, Mark

The non-electrolytic processes for the manufacture of chlorine from hydrogen chloride (Deacon, air oxidation of hydrogen chloride Weldon, manganese dioxide oxidation of hydrogen chloride) which marked the beginning of industrial chlorine chemistry, are currently of only minor importance. 

The creation of a linker market was formally recommended by the Committee to Review the Functioning of Financial Institutions (1977-1980) —known as the Wilson Committee, after its Chairman Sir Harold Wilson. However, Mark Deacon s and Andrew Derry s excellent book Inflation-Indexed Securities cites a recommendation by Keynes to issue linkers as early as 1924. There was a domestic precursor for the market, inasmuch as the UK government s National Savings department had been issuing inflation-linked savings certificates for retail investors since 1975. 

Submitted by GLEN B. DEACON, TRAN D. TUONG, and DALLAS L. WILKINSON t Checked by TOBIN MARKS ... 

A marked difference between oxychlorination of alkenes and the Deacon process is the considerably lower reaction temperature (200-300 C) of the former process. At te eratures V/230 C where almost no chlorine is produced in the Deacon process activity for oxychlorination of ethylene remains high. At these lower temperatures a different reaction path (24) takes place. 

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