Process for the conversion of an alkane to a mixture of an alcohol and a ketone
US4459427A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 26, 1982 |
| Grant date | Jul 10, 1984 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 26, 2002 |
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- Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
- CPC primaryC07C2601/14
- WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A mixture of the alcohol and ketone derivatives of alkanes is produced by reacting the alkane with a hydrocarbyl hydroperoxide, eg t-butyl hydroperoxide, at ambient or elevated temperature and pressure in the presence as catalyst of an iron or manganese square planar complex having heterocyclic nitrogen-donor ligands, e.g. a porphyrin or phthalocyanine complex, which complex has either no axial ligands, eg the lower valency or cationic complex, or an axial ligand which is non-coordinating or weakly-coordinating.
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