Production of nitriles

Claim 1

THE PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF AN AROMATIC NITRILE WHICH COMPRISES CONTACTING WITH A CATALYST FOR THE VAPOR PHASE PARTIAL OXIDATION OF BENZENE AND NAPHTHALENE, RESPECTIVELY, TO MALEIC AND PHTHALIC ANHYDRIDE, A GASEOUS MIXTURE CONTAINING OXYGEN, AMMONIA AND AN ORGANIC COMPOUND FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF THE ALKYL AND ALKENYL SUBSTITUTED BENZENE AND NAPHTHALENE HYDROCARBONS AND THE INTERMEDIATE PARTIAL OXIDATION PRODUCTS OF SAID HYDROCARBONS IN WHICH THE OXYGEN PRESENT IS DIRECTLY COMBINED WITH ACYCLIC CARBON WITH NO OXYGEN ATOM BEING DIRECTLY LINKED TO MORE THAN ONE OF THE ACYCLIC-CARBON ATOMS AND NO ACYCLIC CARBON ATOM BEING DIRECTLY LINKED TO OXYGEN THROUGH MORE THAN TWO OF ITS VALENCES, SAID GASEOUS MIXTURE CONTAINING AT LEAST 1 MOL AMMONIA FOR EVERY ONE -CN RADICAL IN THE NITRILE REACTION PRODUCT OF SAID ORGANIC COMPOUND AND BEING CONTACTED WITH SAID CATALYST AT TEMPERATURES IN THE RANGE 350* TO 600*C.