Carbonization of aromatic hydrocarbons catalyzed by alkali metals has been studied to determine what sort of cokes will be formed. Hydrocarbons studied in the present paper were in every case carbonized into isotropic carbons at high yields, regardless of the kind of alkali metals, starting material
Carbonization of aromatic hydrocarbons—IV: Reaction path of carbonization catalyzed by alkali metals
✍ Scribed by Isao Mochida; Ei-Ichi Nakamura; Keiko Maeda; Kenjiro Takeshita
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 802 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-6223
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✦ Synopsis
Abstrad--The carbonization path of aromatic hydrocarbons catalyzed by alkali metals has been investigated to elucidate how aromatic hydrocarbons were converted into the isotropic coke, compared to the same reaction catalyzed by aluminum chloride which gave the anisotropic needle-like coke. Attempts were made to identify the intermediate products by means of elemental analyses, NMR, and mass spectroscopy, and the process was followed by the analysis of evolved gases. Effects of the catalyst migration at the intermediate step of carbonization on the properties of produced coke were also investigated to know when the destiny of the coke was determined. These results indicate that the isotropic nature of the coke obtained from the aromatic hydrocarbons with alkali metals is due to the extensive dehydrogenation of the intermediate at the early stage of carbonization at ca. 250°C. The dehydrogenation may raise the melting point of the carbonizing material. Other factors influencing the nature of the coke are considered to be unimportant in the present case.
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