Patent ID: 9586832
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: C01D,C07C

Claim:
1. A method of converting halogen-containing compounds comprising providing a first compound consisting of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of perhalogenated alkyls, halons, and freons, providing an tertiary amine-containing compound, providing at least one second compound selected from the group consisting of lithium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide, contacting the first compound, the amine-containing compound, and the second compound together to form a mixture, heating the mixture to a first temperature, reacting the first and second compounds in the presence of the tertiary amine-containing compound within the mixture to form a reacted mixture, allowing the reacted mixture to cool to room temperature, and isolating products from the cooled reacted mixture, wherein the products comprise alkali metal salts composed of the halogens from the first compound and the alkali metal from the second compound.