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2012

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Removal Of Branched Dibenzothiophenes From Hydrocarbon Mixtures Via Charge Transfer Complexes With A Tapa-Functionalized Adsorbent, Xiaolin Wei, Michael Husson, Marcus V. Dutra E Mello, Daniel Chinn Mar 2012

Removal Of Branched Dibenzothiophenes From Hydrocarbon Mixtures Via Charge Transfer Complexes With A Tapa-Functionalized Adsorbent, Xiaolin Wei, Michael Husson, Marcus V. Dutra E Mello, Daniel Chinn

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A process for producing an adsorbent where a metal oxide is reacted with an alkoxy silane to produce an epoxy-functionalized metal oxide. This product is reacted with an amino-substituted propionic acid and a nitro-substituted fluorenone, and this product is grafted to the epoxy-functionalized metal oxide. This grafted product is the adsorbent, which may be contacted with a hydrocarbon mixture having at least one sulfur containing compound in order to remove this sulfur containing compound. Also disclosed is a process for adding polymerization groups to an adsorbent.