Manufacture of lubricant additives

US6569820B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Infineum International Limited · GB

Inventors

• Jonathan M. McConnachie · Annandale, US
• Ian Bell · Woodstock, GB
• Edward I. Stiefel · Bound Brook, US
• Stanley J. Brois · Westfield, US
• Ernestine W. Hill · Piscataway, US
• Alisdair Brown · Abingdon, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 23, 2001
• Grant date: May 27, 2003
• Expiry date: Sep 4, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C10N2070/02
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Oil-soluble or oil-dispersible trinuclear molybdenum-sulfur compounds are made by reacting, in a polar medium, a reactant molybdenum compound containing an anion that possesses a trinuclear molybdenum core, and a dithiocarbamate that is produced in situ.