Patent US4499300 (http://l2.espacenet.com/dips/viewer?PN=US4499300&CY=gb&LG=en&DB=EPD)
This patent describes cobalt (II) catalyzed oxidation of readily available 1,4-diethylbenzene to p-Et-acetophenone, but can be addapted to suit own needs.
Oxidations were performed in a 50 ml flask fitted with a bottom-sealed sintered disc to effect air dispersion, a condenser, and a Dean-Stark trap. The flask was charged with 10 grams of 1,4-diethylbenzene while air flowed through the sintered disc at a rate between 125 and 250 cc per minute. The cobalt compound used as a catalyst was added, and the contents heated to the desired temperature. Samples were withdrawn periodically and analyzed by gas-liquid chromatography to afford the results summarized in Table 1. The product, 4-ethyl acetophenone, was then isolated by the fractional vacuum distillation of the oxidation product mixture [...]
Consult the above patent for the details
Yes, typing up a patent (or OCR'ing it) into ASCII is in my opinion worth much more than simply finding it, as immensely more information is to be found in the post if the relevant sections of an article is included, rather than just being a link to a patent or article somewhere, that's why I always try to post typographically correct transcriptions instead of just linking to patents/articles, see Post 400040 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=12202.msg40004000#msg40004000)
(Rhodium: "P2P by Grignard Addition to Acetic Anhydride", Novel Discourse) or Post 401290 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=11301.msg40129000#msg40129000)
(Rhodium: "Synthesis of Derivatives of Myristicin", Novel Discourse).
(You may have noticed that PolytheneSam does not have very many karma points despite finding hundreds of good references all the time, and that is because he usually only links to patents with minimal description of what they describe, so to be able to find out if they are good or not (and sometimes even to find out what they are ABOUT) you need to follow the link and read through perhaps several pages for each link - that takes too much time for everyone, a lot of work would be saved if summaries were posted for each link).
My personal karma point rating guidelines (rough sketch):
Posting general unreferenced information: No karma
Posting detailed, useful unreferenced information: May give karma if useful/novel enough, as in Post 293689 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=6962.msg29368900#msg29368900)
(Ritter: "MDP1P", Chemistry Discourse)
Finding a good article, linking to it: Usually no karma, except in special cases, like Post 367468 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=12211.msg36746800#msg36746800)
(Regis: "The most interesting CTH reaction ever documented?", Novel Discourse)
Finding a good article, linking to it and writing a nice summary: Usually gets a karma point, like Post 380478 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=9581.msg38047800#msg38047800)
(pHarmacist: "p-F-benzaldehyde from p-Cl-benzaldehyde", Methods Discourse)
Posting an article, but without including a summary: Usually no karma (as it is not obvious what its good for), like Post 398805 (missing)
(Aurelius: "US patent 3197473", General Discourse) (which got a karma point first AFTER it was explained)
Finding a good article, posting it and writing a nice summary: Always gets a karma point, like Post 401843 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=12066.msg40184300#msg40184300)
(Antoncho: "The easiest PhCOOH -> PhCHO reduction yet!", Novel Discourse)
Writing a review (posting good articles with comments): Always gets a karma point, like Post 380385 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=9422.msg38038500#msg38038500)
(Chimimanie: "from p-toluic acid to 3-Meo-4-methyl-amphetamine", Methods Discourse)
Performing a novel experiment and posting detailed results: Always gets a karma point, like Post 400849 (missing)
(geezmeister: "Phosphorous Acid Works", Stimulants)
What do you meen typing? Ever heard about copy/paste? Besides, some bees are simply puting out patent numbers when making a post and get karma point, PolytheneSam is a good example, he often just puts out patent numbers and you seem to have missed him when giving examples; Post 346235 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=9239.msg34623500#msg34623500)
(PolytheneSam: "Post 18563", Methods Discourse) I guess next time I shuold copy the whole patent text and paste it...
Yes, typing up a patent (or OCR'ing it) into ASCII is in my opinion worth much more than simply finding it...
Yes, but without bringing the relevant information to the attention of Hive there would be nothing for Aurelius to "type".
Besides, in the patent of this thread only the acetophenone is of interst, further manipulations are compleatly uninteresting in my opinion...