Editing Industrial processes (section)

==Petroleum and organic compounds==
The nature of an organic molecule means it can be transformed at the molecular level to create a range of products.
* [[Alkylation]] – refining of crude oil
* [[Burton process]] – cracking of hydrocarbons
* [[Cracking (chemistry)]] – the generic term for breaking up the larger molecules
* [[Cumene process]] – making phenol and acetone from benzene
* [[Friedel–Crafts reaction]], [[Kolbe–Schmitt reaction]]
* [[Olefin metathesis]], [[thermal depolymerization]]
* [[Oxo process]] – produces aldehydes from alkenes
* [[Polymerization]]
* [[Raschig hydroxylamine process]] – produces [[hydroxylamine]], a precursor of nylon
* [[Transesterification]] – organic chemicals