Process for the preparation of unsaturated alcohols
US4073813A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 18, 1976 |
| Grant date | Feb 14, 1978 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 18, 1996 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02P20/584
- WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A process for reducing .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenic aldehydes to the corresponding .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenic primary alcohols by hydrogen in the presence of a platinum-containing catalyst which has been pre-reduced in hydrogen at a temperature of at least about 50.degree. C. The process is highly selective in reducing the carbonyl group of the aldehyde in preference to the ethylenic unsaturation and said pre-reduced catalyst can be re-used in a series of aldehyde reductions without substantial loss in activity.
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