An antiknock agent is a gasoline additive used to reduce engine knocking and increase the fuel's octane rating by raising the temperature and pressure...

General Motors, was the first to discover its effectiveness as an antiknock agent in 1921, after spending several years attempting to find an additive...

solutions, e.g. phenols, ethanol, acetic acid. It has also been used as an antiknock agent. In the laboratory, diisopropyl ether is useful for recrystallizations...

glioma cells. Triacetin can also be used as a fuel additive as an antiknock agent which can reduce engine knocking in gasoline, and to improve cold and...

stringent emission control regulations also resulted in the removal of the antiknock agent tetraethyl lead from automotive gasoline, to reduce lead in the air...

other organic chemicals. In World War II, xylidine was an important antiknock agent in very high performance aviation gasolines. Its purpose was to permit...

all hydrocarbons, 2,2,4-trimethylpentane is flammable. Oil refinery Antiknock agents "2,2,4-trimethylpentane - Compound Summary". PubChem Compound. USA:...

the chief chemist involved in the production of tetraethyllead, an antiknock agent that made gasoline "leaded," later discontinued over concerns about...

methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl, an antiknock agent in petrol. MMT is a commercially useful antiknock compound. CpCo(CO)2 is a catalyst for the...

such as dopamine reuptake inhibitors (cocaine, methylphenidate), releasing agents (amphetamine, methamphetamine), and precursors (levodopa). GABAA enhancers...

Benzin or the Romanian word benzină) can mean "petrol" or "gasoline". Antiknock agent More, Charles (20 June 2009). Black Gold: Britain and Oil in the Twentieth...

principal component of NMA (monomethylaniline), a non-traditional antiknock agent increasingly used by petroleum refiners and fuel distributors around...

emission limits for NOx and PM. In 1922, lead was added to gasoline as an antiknock agent. It was not until 1969, nearly five decades later, that research began...

made the first one, Josi Puleo. Ferrocene and its derivatives are antiknock agents used in the fuel for petrol engines. They are safer than previously...

engineer for GM, discovered tetraethyllead (leaded gasoline) as an antiknock agent, and GM patented the compound because ethanol could not be patented...

— Thomas Midgley Jr. discovers lead components to be an efficient antiknock agent in gasoline engines. In spite of the well known toxic effects, lead...

Examples include the historically important IrCl(CO)(P(C6H5)3)2 and the antiknock agent (CH3C5H4)Mn(CO)3. The parent compounds for many of these mixed ligand...

Polyetheramine (PEA); see also Techron Polyisobutyleneamine (PIBA) Antiknock agents Tetraethyllead (TEL), now banned almost everywhere for causing brain...

Methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl (MMT or MCMT) is an organomanganese compound with the formula (C5H4CH3)Mn(CO)3. Initially marketed as a supplement...

The MTBE controversy concerns methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), a gasoline additive that replaced tetraethyllead. MTBE is an oxygenate and raises gasoline's...

formation. In Europe, iron pentacarbonyl was once used as an anti-knock agent in petrol in place of tetraethyllead; it was produced by IG Farben and commercially...

an important contract to manufacture monomethylaniline used as an antiknock agent in high octane aviation fuel. In 1941, a new aniline plant was built...

has had the greatest impact is tetraethyllead, formerly used as an antiknock agent in gasoline intended for automobile internal combustion engines and...

exposure to lead was the addition of tetraethyllead to gasoline as an antiknock agent, a practice that originated in the United States in 1921. It was phased...

hexacarbonyl. The compound was originally examined as a potential antiknock agent. (Norbornadiene)molybdenum tetracarbonyl is a precursor to other derivatives...

of tetraethyllead in humans. This substance was commonly used as an antiknock agent in gasoline until 2005. Since 1970 he has been living in Germany, with...

Alkylate is a premium gasoline blending stock because it has exceptional antiknock properties and is clean burning. Alkylate is also a key component of avgas...

a research chemist at General Motors as part of a team researching antiknock agents. This led to the development of tetraethyllead, which was widely used...

deficiency. On the basis of cymantrene, Nesmeyanov proposed a new antiknock agent for motor gasoline. Nesmeyanov, together with N.K. Kochetkov and M...

and methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl have been used as antiknock agents. Certain bent metallocenes of zirconium and hafnium are effective precatalysts...